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Re: GS/TCP (TCP/IP for the IIGS)



In article <SKNKWRKS.94Apr26170203@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu>, sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
|> Furthermore, what would be required in the way of hardware?  Doesn't
|> TCP/IP normally run over Ethernet connections or some other high-speed
|> network connection?  How would you get around the lack of an Ethernet
|> card for the II--or will this use SL/IP instead?

You can embed TCP/IP data inside AppleTalk packets and send them to
a gateway (router?  I always get the terminology confused...) which
then strips out the original TCP/IP packet and sends it on to its
destination. 

-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)