Pete, one solution I have had suggested on the Filemaker front is to just
run VNC and remotely control a machine on the local network. Apparently the
database performance is also better that way, due to the naive way Filemaker
executes queries across the network.

Steve

ps. My vote is for reply-to to point at the list.

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> From: Pete <speed@advcomm.co.nz>
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:12:03 +1300 (NZDT)
> To: adsl@unixathome.org
> Subject: Re: Appletalk VPN?
> 
>> 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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