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Cc: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,
	Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: AppleTalk status
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Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on updating net/netatalk to version 2.1 (or 2.1.1 when that comes out the next couple of days), and I'm wondering what state AppleTalk support is in these days.  Is anybody still using it, or would now be the time to make all AppleTalk support in that port optional, and just focus on the file server component?
>
> I haven't used AppleTalk for at least eight years now, and I don't quite see which setting it still would be used in nowadays...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>   
I use it successfully on a router to connect my antique AppleTalk-only 
laser printer. It seems to work quite well still.
-Nathan