Re: Need help with Marinetti

["pandel" <pandel@a2central.com.remove-lht-this>]

  To: Polymorph
 > On Oct 20, 9:12=A0am, "pandel" <pan...@a2central.com.remove-zvp-this> 
 > wrote:
 > > Hi!
 > >
 > > I'm searching for someone who could give me a hand in setting up the 
 > > connection between my Apple IIGS and my Linux box. I thought it should be 
 > > possile to use the latest Marinetti release with direct connect link 
 > > laye=
 > r on
 > > the iigs side and a combination of slattach, route, arp, and such on the 
 > > =
 > linux
 > > side. But it doesn't work. If someone's interested, I can give full 
 > > detai=
 > l
 > > about what I've done so far. My gues is that I somehow misconfigured the 
 > > serial line on the linux side, or misunderstood the whole thing, but I 
 > > re=
 > ally
 > > don't know what to do at the moment.
 > >
 > > Would be very nice if someone might help me! I'd so much like to setup a 
 > > public BBS system like the AOR...
 > >
 > > Greetz,
 > > Holger
 > 
 > Its been a little while since I played with Marinetti, however, I
 > think you will want to use the SLIP link layer, *not* the Direct
 > Connect link layer. IIRC, the Direct Connect link layer is for
 > creating a connection using the Windows (2000 or less) Direct
 > Connection feature.

 > Hopefully my memory is serving me well and that this helps!

 > Cheers,
 > Mike

Hi Mike,

sounds interesting. I don't really know waht this direct connect thing is, 
that Windows offers, but I'll give it a try. If nothing works, I'll setup a 
slip server on the linux side. But many thanks for the hint.

Bye,
Holger