Re: Putting a IIgs on an ethernet network?

[edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSapple2.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 19:36:11 -0500, btomlin@NOSPAM.texas.net (Bruce
Tomlin) wrote:

>In article <37a35670.23550067@news2.lightlink.com>, 
>edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSapple2.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.) wrote:
>
>> I now have a 8MB Mac Se/30 with System 7.5.5 and Apple's Appletalk
>> Bridge extension.  If I get my SE/30 on the network, connect my IIgs
>> to my SE/30 via an Appletalk cable (a serial cable, really), install
>> GS/OS's Appletalk stuff, and turn on my IIgs's Appletalk stuff in the
>> control panel, will I be able to access shared Mac media from my IIgs?
>
>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.