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Re: Cost of adding ethernet to IIgs?

Subject: Re: Cost of adding ethernet to IIgs?
From: Mike Ford <mikeford@socal.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:51:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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> > Lowest cost, especially if you have more than one IIgs era computer is 
> > to run localtalk/Phonenet and a ethernet bridge, such as a Fastpath 4. 
> > With the bridge you are limited to 230k/sec localtalk, but would have 
> > all the connectivity options of AppleTalk and even TCP/IP.
> 
> My understanding is that there is no public version of Marinetti that
> will provide a TCP/IP connection over LocalTalk. For IP, therefore, you

Nuts I would have thought that was sorted out long ago. Its not like 
MacIP packet encoding is some great mystery.

References:
- Cost of adding ethernet to IIgs?
  - From: Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>
- Re: Cost of adding ethernet to IIgs?
  - From: Mike Ford <mikeford@socal.rr.com>
- Re: Cost of adding ethernet to IIgs?
  - From: Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>

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