Re: HELP: TCP/IP for the ignorant?

["Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org>]

Roughana <andrew.roughan@writeme.com> wrote:
: "Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff@gcfn.org> wrote:
:> "But why should I stop there?" I thought.
: Rule #1 - If it aint broke, don't fix it :)
: 
:> I figured I'd download [the MacIP link layer] and give it a try. [...]
:> When I start Marinetti, one of the things it does...in 
:> fact one of the things it insists on...is to try and connect to an 
:> Internet gateway machine.
: 
: Whoa... terminology is crucial to aid understanding.
: The MacIP Link Layer needs to establish a connection with a MacIP
: Gateway.
: 
: From what you've described about your network you don't have a MacIP
: Gateway.
: One possible solution is to install IPNetRouter software on your LC
: III.
: Another is some hardware that acts as a MacIP Gateway such as a Cayman
: Gatorbox.

Great.  Either a $110 box or a $90 bit of software.  That exceeds the 
street value of the entire LocalTalk side of the network.

Perhaps I am going about this all wrong.  Yeah, I'll install IPNetRouter 
on the LC-III, which will work for three weeks, anyway.  Maybe I will be 
able to restart that machine every three weeks and reset the software, 
since the battery is dead in that machine.

But clearly the OS-X machine is able to handle AppleTalk the way it's 
configured right now.  I like the idea of being able to run MacIP on the 
GS'es, and that would be an easy way to interface to the G4's shell.  But 
all I really need to do is pass messages to the OSX machine and get it to 
do things based on those messages.  For instance, "Launch a Quicktime 
movie" or 'Display the image in this file' or things like that.  
Obviously the machines can communicate with each other because AppleShare 
works; I can read files from the OSX machine on the GS, and I can swap 
files through the LC-III server.  

Let me ask this, then...Is there such a thing as a LocalTalk messaging 
system?  It ought to be quite a bit simpler than file sharing, but I've 
never seen it done...

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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