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paul wrote: According to one of the technicians (I help him with cabling etc), the TCP/IP can also talk appletalk, I am not sure about this but I have read that it's possible to stick a linux box in between the two systems.As Linux can talk and understand both it can act as a I would guess a translator or whatever the correct term is, allowing both to co-exist, (someone in the US did this a few years ago, I can't seem to find the write up though).
As far as I know Appletalk is a full protocol, so would sit alongside TCP/IP. Linux can provide services to Appletalk only devices, but I'd expect you just to run TCP/IP on the Apples, as well as Appletalk, they can coexist quite happily on a LAN. I can have a dig in my networking books, I usually skip the chapter on Appletalk. It might be possible to supply some sort of gateway service, but I don't see the point. TCP/IP won the standards war, for better or worse, other networking protocols are now only used where they are clearly superior in my experience. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.