From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 19:58:05 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA15093 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:58:05 -0800 Received: from apollo.COSC.GOV (root@apollo.COSC.GOV [198.94.103.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA15060 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:57:47 -0800 Received: (from vince@localhost) by apollo.COSC.GOV (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA11726; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:55:11 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 19:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: -Vince- To: Michael Smith cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, girgen@e.kth.se, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: AppleTalk for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199511010356.OAA05542@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > -Vince- stands accused of saying: > > I know what you mean, we had ethernet cards on the macs and they > > just plugged directly into the router (cisco 2501) while the localtalk > > mac's needed a Gatorbox to the router but is there a way to plug a > > localtalk to a ethernet hub without using a Gatorbox? > > You could use a Multigate 8) Seriously, no. You need something with smarts > in it to do the work. Yes, but the smarts is already in the Cisco router since that has appletalk support built into the software but the interface is the problem. Cheers, -Vince- vince@COSC.GOV - GUS Mailing Lists Admin UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Board of Advisors Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan Fan Club Mailiing Lists Admin