Re: Etherwave and IIgs

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <wvbtd.1796$i6.1643@news.itd.umich.edu>, Greg Andrzejewski
<pressyourluck85@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     I'm wondering if I would be able to use a Farallon Etherwave to connect 
> my IIgs to an ethernet network. I understand that this setup may work for 
> Ethertalk, but has anyone tried TCP/IP with the latest version of Marinetti?

The Etherwave will make it easy to hook up the IIgs to ethernet and to
access AppleShare servers using the AppleTalk protocol. *If* the
Etherwave supports MacIP then you will be able to use it with Marinetti
on the IIgs but you will still need a MacIP server to unwrap MacIP and
convert the data to TCP/IP. Not all external LocalTalk to ethernet
bridges support MacIP.

Realistically, your options are:

1. Use a hardware MacIP server (GatorBox, FastPath or similar). They
are cheap on eBay.

2. Use a software MacIP server on a Mac. IPNetRouter (in conjunction
with LocalTalk Bridge) handles this well.

>     Similarly, does anyone know of PC-localtalk bridge software that will 
> run on a PC, do TCP/IP over localtalk and support my Farallon PC PhoneNET 
> III card? I've got everything working with PC Maclan, but unfortunately PC 
> Maclan does not include any such features.

A PC-based solution is not possible because there is no MacIP server
software.

Good luck,

Phil