> 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?

Same here - we wanted to connect our Filemaker database to an office in ChCh,
but Filemaker only runs over Appletalk.

I know that Cisco routers will do Appletalk routing (unsure of Appletalk over IP
though) with the right Cisco IOS version. However the last time I looked (around
a month ago), a 2500 router was $4K approx and the IOS to do Appletalk was
$5K! Far to expensive for us.

I see that the Linux kernel has Appletalk IP encapsulation support (ddp over
ip), so I'd imagine there are software packages out there that would use it. I
would think that this is the best option for now, but I havn't found out which
packages use it, nor how to configure them. I would imagine that each seperate
LAN would have to appear as a seperate Appletalk ZONE.

Let me know how you get on :)

Rgds,
Pete

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Received on Thu Feb 1 12:12:17 2001