Re: Is a localtalk to ethernet bridge...

[dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)]

admin (scowan007@mac.com) wrote:
: and Marinetti all I need to put my GS on my home network and the internet?

Yes, and no.

Without Marinetti, you can connect your GS to a LocalTalk network.  If you
have both LocalTalk and Ethernet machines on the network, you can pass
data between them if you have a Localtalk to Ethernet bridge, such as
LocalTalk Bridge running on an older Mac with both LocalTalk and Ethernet
connections.  But that won't let you do TCP/IP to the IIgs

Marinetti includes a MacIP link layer now, but to make it work you need a
MacIP gateway.  Once you have that, you can do MacIP and get the IIgs onto
the Internet.

Without the MacIP gateway, Marinetti gives you TCP/IP via SLIP or PPP, if
I remember correctly, and not much else.  Fine for a dial-up
implementation, or via some kind of PPP terminal server.  But MacIP would
be easier.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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