On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Steve Hoek wrote:

> I have several legacy applications at work that use the Appletalk protocol,
> and I would love to be able to use them from home. The LAN at work is
> connected to a 1500MB/month Jetstream account, and my LAN at home has a
> 400MB one. What combination of hardware / software can connect these
> networks together most easily?

VTUN on Linux should be able to do this. It can use the "tap" dummy network
device to get and send packets, and since Linux has at least some support
for Appletalk (I take you are running it over Ethernet?) and Appletalk
routing and the tap devices just look like ethernet devices it should work.
VTUN can just use stock standard TCP/IP connections so should be easy to get
going through a NATed environment like ADSL is normally here.
 
Of course I haven't actually tried this. The most I have done is make turn
a linux box into a appletalk file server for some iMacs and use vtun for a
IPX routed tunnel using ppp.

Or there is bound to be a Mac solution, but I'm not that knowledgable in
that area (or spelling :-) ).

(note there is bound to be errors in my above statements :-) ).

Andrew Gordon
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Received on Thu Feb 1 11:25:54 2001