AUX 2.0 Limitations and Workarounds??:

[James T. Talley]

In message <3121 at ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Ira Rampil writes:
>Why can't AUX handle TCP/IP via LocalTalk to our gateways????
>BTW NCSA Telnet does work under AUX Multifinder but wont cut it
>for all we want to do, ie bidirectional ftp to the Mac hosts, and
>rlogins to the Macs from the net, as well as Mail and News.  Does
>any know of a PD or third party solution to this capricious
>limitation???

This may be a naive question, but as someone about to purchase an
A/UX system I'd like to know if this is the case in general.  Is
A/UX able to speak TCP/IP through its LocalTalk connection?  I'd
planned on hooking it up to our installed LocalTalk net and I'd
like to know beforehand if that means I'll have to get a Fastpath
or Gatorbox to use TCP/IP software.  We have only Macs and no
outside world connection right now.  I'd like to save the money
if I could, but, if I can't even Telnet without it, it's pretty
useless.

Do I need an Ethernet card and/or a FastPath?

I'd planned on using MacTCP on the other Macs on the net, if that
makes a difference.

James Talley