From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 16:41:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA07387 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:41:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sumter.awod.com (awod.com [198.81.225.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07379 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tsunami..awod.com (chsx001.awod.com [206.31.146.211]) by sumter.awod.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA20338; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:41:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19960830234118.00926ee8@awod.com> X-Sender: klam@awod.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:41:18 -0400 To: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers list) From: Ken Lam Subject: Re: FreeBSD talking to Apple Mac? Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I got hold of an ol' Apple Mac Plus. Pretty ancient stuff, that does >not allow for a ethernet connection. Sofar I did not have much luck >bringing up PPP on the Mac side. PPP should work ok. I know that macslip did (a number of years ago). >I know there is something like CAP(?) that can run on Unix machines. But >I suppose it requires ethernet. Either that or an appletalk to ethernet bridge. >What I'd like to have is something like Appletalk (or is it >called Localtalk in this case?) that I can hookup to a serial port of >my FBSD box. Don't know of anything like that. But if you get the PPP going, you can run ARNS and use the freebsd box as a appleshare server :) (slowly though) -k --- Ken Lam lam@awod.com Integrated Technical Systems Systems, Networks, and Internet Solutions -- Defining Technology Today "'Plug and Play' was only applicable to the original ATARI(tm)"