Re: Putting a IIgs on an ethernet network?

[shirsch@adelphia.net (Steven N. Hirsch)]

In article <37a35670.23550067@news2.lightlink.com>, Edhel Iaur, Esq. wrote:
>I now have a 8MB Mac Se/30 with System 7.5.5 and Apple's Appletalk
>Bridge extension.  If I get my SE/30 on the network, connect my IIgs
>to my SE/30 via an Appletalk cable (a serial cable, really), install
>GS/OS's Appletalk stuff, and turn on my IIgs's Appletalk stuff in the
>control panel, will I be able to access shared Mac media from my IIgs?

Yes.  It will also cheerfully bridge you to an ethernet network, which
is great if you run Linux + netatalk (asun version).  The UMich
netatalk does not "ship" with my ProDOS AFP patches and will not work
with A2s.


>Is there also any way to get TCP/IP to my IIgs in this fashion?

I don't believe so.