Re: eBay Keywords for Gatrobox or Equivalent?

["Steve ][" <sc-ii@hotmail.com>]

I don't have to have the IIGS on the internet, just reading/writing
files with a file server is basically all I need. I have Netgear
wireless print servers in different places in my house bridging TCP/IP
from Windows machines and OS X machines to my wirelsss access point. I
thought I could do

IIGS + Gatorbox + NetGearBridge -> WAP -> hub -> Macfilesvr.

But now that might not work if the NetGear bridge product does not
bridge AppleTalk, right? So maybe the GatorBox is not the thing to
have at all. I want to make the IIGS just as wireless as everything
else.

I never heard of the Shiva FastPath. After web-searching a little, I
found this page

http://www.walshcomptech.com/fastpath5/upnrunning.htm

Of course it does not talk about using/setting with a IIGS. 

Hmmm...





On Thu, 15 May 2008 08:41:30 -0700 (PDT), pitz <pitz.wong@gmail.com>
wrote:

>If you just want to read/write files to your Windows Server (using the
>combination of AppleTalk and Services for Macintosh), all you would
>need is a LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge.  This should bridge AppleTalk
>packets from the LocalTalk side (IIgs) to the Ethernet side (Windows
>Server).  I could not remember if there were some issues with
>authentication though.  For this kind of setup, look for the Farallon
>EtherWave adapter, specifically the one with the LocalTalk connector.
>It's been mentioned that an AsanteTalk may also work, but I was not
>able to get mine working.
>
>However, the above still uses AppleTalk over LocalTalk/Ethernet and
>will not help you bridge to the outside world of the Internet.  For
>that, you would need a TCP/IP connection.  Marinetti on the IIgs knows
>how to talk DDP-IP, commonly referred to as MacIP.  TCP/IP packets are
>encapsulated for transport over the LocalTalk wiring.  A MacIP server
>connected to both LocalTalk and Ethernet will remove the encapsulation
>and forward TCP/IP packets over to the Ethernet side, and vise versa.
>For this, the GatorBox has been very popular, but getting rare (but
>not expensive) on eBay.  An alternative is the Shiva FastPath -- there
>are five of them on eBay right now (not mine), for as low $15.  The
>FastPath 4 has the DB-9 LocalTalk connector, while the FastPath 5 has
>the round LocalTalk connector similar to the IIgs'.
>