Re: Apple II networking question

[Eric Smith <eric-no-spam-for-me@brouhaha.com>]

"Paul R. Santa-Maria" <paulrsm@buckeye-express.com> writes:
> LocalTalk and Ethernet are wiring specifications.
> AppleTalk and TCP/IP are communication protocols.
> AppleTalk can run over LocalTalk or Ethernet.
> TCP/IP can run over Ethernet.

That's all correct.

The usual source of confusion is that early on, before there was such a
thing as AppleTalk over Ethernet, Apple routinely used the term
"AppleTalk" to refer to both the protocols and the physical medium
(which later became LocalTalk).

There is also a third network physical layer commonly used with Apple II
and Macintosh computers, PhoneNet.  It is essentially LocalTalk over
twisted pair telephone cable.

> I doubt there is a way to run TCP/IP over LocalTalk.

Actually there is.  It was often known as "MacIP".  IIRC it
was originally supported by the Kinetics Fastpath, and later
by other routers such as the Cayman Gatorbox and the Telebit
NetBlazer LS.

Eric