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Re: MacGate Revival

On 05/16/2013 02:07 PM, Miles Lott wrote:

Hello, all.  I am new to the group and have only been working with Apple
2's since January.  Hopefully this is the right place to post this.

Anyway, I am working with a IIGS connected to A2SERVER using the supplied
VM.  Thanks to Geoff I got localtalk working through a Farallon PN848.

I found some older code for MacGate and have managed to update the code to
the point that it compiles cleanly and runs in the VM (Ubuntu with kernel
3.5.0).  MacGate is supposed to be an appletalk to TCP/IP gateway and/or
router.

The IIGS connects to the network and finds the gateway using MacIP with
Marinetti 3.X installed.  However, this is currently the extent of my
success with this and neither Telnet nor Casper work.

I have tried unsuccessfully to locate the original author, and I only know
that he had some hand in the kernel internals for appletalk as well.  So I
am here to gauge interest and see if anyone is able to help with evaluating
or fixing the code.  I have nearly 20 years experience with Linux but
relatively little experience with C.
I don't mean to belabor the obvious, but are you sure you have a telnet server running and that the port isn't blocked by a firewall? Telnet is disabled by default on all contemporary Linux distributions I'm familiar with. 

If Casper is an ftp client (not familiar with it), same comment applies.
In the larger scheme of things, it seems like netatalk would be the obvious place for a DDP to TCP gateway to live. I'm actually surprised that no one ever added that feature.
Disclaimer: I am an experienced C/C++ coder with Linux system-level programming experience. But, I have not spent a lot of time in the network layer. Just enough to be dangerous :-). 

Steve