Networking

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

There is an ip tunneled over appletalk, at least they claim that's what they
are doing.

When the net comes up I'll just use a LAN monitor to figure out what's there.

At 01:48 PM 9/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
>At 11:13 9/18/96 -0400, Rodney Thayer wrote:
>>will Linux do IP over Appletalk?  That is (ug) what my kid's school is doing
>>for Net Day.
>
>Um, IP and AppleTalk both do the same thing, so unless there's some perverse
>AppleTalk tunnelling mechanism for IP out there [I shiver to even suggest
>such a thing], you are out of luck. 
>
>The Linux box can talk AppleTalk, so that's probably the easiest way to get
>going. But you'd be better off getting them to use IP for their macs- the
>kids will get a leg up on the internet that way.
>--
>John Saylor MIT I/S [via PPP]
>
>
>

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