Re: Is a localtalk to ethernet bridge...

[Robert Flossmann <robert.flossmann@freenet.de>]

In article <c1ll3k$8nb$1@acme.gcfn.org>, dalloff@gcfn.org says...
> admin (scowan007@mac.com) wrote:
> : and Marinetti all I need to put my GS on my home network and the internet?
> 
> Yes, and no.
> 
> Without Marinetti, you can connect your GS to a LocalTalk network.  If you
> have both LocalTalk and Ethernet machines on the network, you can pass
> data between them if you have a Localtalk to Ethernet bridge, such as
> LocalTalk Bridge running on an older Mac with both LocalTalk and Ethernet
> connections.  But that won't let you do TCP/IP to the IIgs
> 
> Marinetti includes a MacIP link layer now, but to make it work you need a
> MacIP gateway.  Once you have that, you can do MacIP and get the IIgs onto
> the Internet.
> 
> Without the MacIP gateway, Marinetti gives you TCP/IP via SLIP or PPP, if
> I remember correctly, and not much else.  Fine for a dial-up
> implementation, or via some kind of PPP terminal server.  But MacIP would
> be easier.
> 
> --Dave Althoff, ][.
> 
Somebody please enlighten me:
Is a MacIP gateway a piece of hardware or software. If software: is 
there software awailable that carries on where LocalTalk Bridge leaves 
off to connect to the GS?

TIA, Robert