Re: Putting a IIgs on an ethernet network?

[mikeford@netwiz.net (Mike Ford)]

> >Probably.  I've been using Appletalk Internet Router and an old Kinetics 
> >Fastpath router, so I know it works in a routed configuration with zones, 
> >but I haven't had a chance to play with LTB yet to see how it works.
> >
> >> Is there also any way to get TCP/IP to my IIgs in this fashion?
> >
> >Since (AFAIK) the only TCP/IP for the IIgs doesn't work over Appletalk, no.
> 
> That's what I figured; just thought that I'd ask, since I remember
> that somebody was working on a non-dialup TCP/IP thing called GS/TCP a
> coupla years ago.  I think it required a serial connection to a Unix
> box or something, and had basically no programs that supported it.

Apple has something I think is MacTCP or some such, and the FastPath uses
it to encode TCP/IP packets inside AppleTalk packets. Using a FastPath (or
other device that includes this feature, which isn't common) older Macs
can access all the normal TCP/IP stuff like surfing the web etc.

I think someone is working right now on a "decoder" that would run on the
Iigs etc.

BTW anybody looking for a network bridge should email me directly, I have
a lot of that sort of thing from simple printer adapters, netserials, to
fastpaths.