Re: AppleTalk on IIGS - Questions...

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

ground.ecn AppleII Librarian (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: >Now, if anybody knows how I could telnet into my G4 via Appletalk.....
: >

: Dave, I have similar setups for my GS at work and at home.  However, I
: also run IPNetRouter on the equiv of your LC-III.  (I use a PPC7100 at
: home and a PPC8550 (workgroup server) at work, each running OS8.5 or
: 8.6, but I think 7.5.3+ will work if it can run OpenTransport.) Then any
: machine (GS or Mac) on the localtalk cables can use MacIP to telent to
: machines on the network (WAN or LAN).  I can telnet using Spectrum to the
: ground.ecn.uiowa.edu or to a AIX machine handling one of my email accounts
: or to the HPUX workstation in my office.

IPNetRouter.  Hmmmmmmmm.....

: So, installing IPNetRouter ($, but not too expensive, www.sustworks.com)
: will get you on the way, out the door, ...  I haven't tried to telent to
: my wife's iMac OSX 10.2 yet and I use a Mac as fileserver to bridge
: Appletalk between GS and OSX (haven't tried direct file-sharing).  I do
: not know if one can telnet to OSX as it is, or a telent deamon needs to be
: installed and running.  I can telnet from OSX to other unix boxes without
: problems.

By default, telnet is installed but not enabled in OSX; the preferred
method is via SSH, but if telnet is the only supported protocol...well,
telnet is supplied, you just have to edit the startup scripts to fire the
daemon.  

: In summary, IPNetRouter and MacIP, will accomplish what you need for the
: GS and classic MacOS.  I do not use the GS for telnet regularly because
: Spectrum will always lock up at some (random) time during a session.  I do
: not know if it a Spectrum problem or the tcp addon problem.  In theory it
: works, in practise it always fails.  Telnet on the Macs running Mac
: Proterm always works faultlessly.

: Give IPNetRouter a try, I think you can run it for a 30 day period as is
: without paying a registration fee.  You will like it so much you will
: register, pay a fee, and they'll send your registraton code ASAP by email.
: (Maybe 30 secs if paying by credit card ;-) )

...And it might eliminate the occasional restart of the OS-X box.  I've
had a couple of nasty crashes.  Normally when an app crashes you can
recover in OS-X, but both "Internet Connect" and "DVD Player" have crashed
on me in such a way that they took the keyboard and mouse with them.  Had
I been able to log in remotely, I could have fixed the problem!  8-)

: Hmmm, does a LC-III have enough memory to run OT?  OT may requite more RAM
: than a LC can hold.  If so, find a CSi or something that can handle more
: RAM.  I tend to run PPC's now and forget what the 680x0 machines can do.

I'm not sure.  I think that machine is running classic networking at the
moment, though it might have OT installed but not running.  I really
didn't care...the LC-III doesn't even have a monitor connected, and the
ONLY thing I use it for is to serve as my network router.  If IPNetRouter
will work on that machine it will turn the LC-III in to exactly what I
need it to be...!

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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