Subject: Re: networking with ethernet/appletalk?
To: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/25/1997 13:28:12
> > Also... out of curiosity, is anyone thinking of adding Appletalk
> > support to the mac68k kernel? (or does it already exist?) I notice that
> > sometimes when I have been using System 7 file sharing between my IIci and
> > my Powerbook and then boot the IIci into BSD, the connection drops... is
> > anyone thinking of porting Appleshare for NetBSD/mac68k? ;-)
>
> NetBSD-current has Appletalk :) Just add "options NETATALK" to your kernel
> config file and make a new kernel... (note that Appletalk isn't the same
> as Localtalk. Localtalk isn't supported yet, but it's being worked on).
> Appleshare is done too; you can get an Appleshare server from
> toccata.fugue.com. I don't know the exact directory or filename though,
> and the ftp server seems to be a bit messed up :( It won't give directory
> listings, although if you know the name of files/directories, you can
> still get to them. I run an Appleshare server on my NetBSD/i386 machine,
> and connect to it from my Mac... works very well :)
It (netatalk with patches for NetBSD) is also available at:
ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/contrib/netatalk/netatalk14b2.netbsd.b2.tgz
The next version of Netatalk from umich, and the current ones from Adrian
Sun (who's doing the AppleshareIP patches), will (do) contain the needed
patches too.
Take care,
Bill