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| | Apple Talk |
 | | AppleTalk, a protocol suite developed by Apple Computer in the early 1980s, was developed in conjunction with the Macintosh computer. | | | AppleTalk was designed with a transparent network interface—that is, the interaction between client computers and network servers requires little interaction from the user. | | | RTMP is responsible for establishing and maintaining routing tables for AppleTalk routers. |
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http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/applet.htm
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| | RFC 1504 (rfc1504) - Appletalk Update-Based Routing Protocol: Enhanced App |
| | AppleTalk networking software running on a node on a hidden network lists all of the AppleTalk zone names exported by exterior routers connected to a tunnel, but may list the names of only some or none of the devices in those zones. | | | Exterior Routers An AppleTalk router with a port that connects an AppleTalk internet to a tunnel is an exterior router. | | | An exterior router encapsulates AppleTalk data packets using the headers required by the foreign network system, then forwards the packets to another exterior router connected to the tunnel. |
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1504.html
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| | CITES UIUCnet documentation: AppleTalk on the Urbana-Champaign Campus |
| | AppleTalk is basically how Macintosh computers talk to each other, their file servers and their printers. | | | While Apple is moving in the direction of using IP for all of the Macintosh communications, there will be a need for AppleTalk as long as departments have older computers and printers that they wish to use on the network. | | | If you have LocalTalk or other AppleTalk networks, the router needs to know the network numbers and zone names on these network, or they won't be seen by the rest of campus. |
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http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/guidelines/network/appletalk
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| | Troubleshooting AppleTalk |
| | A router that connects an AppleTalk internetwork to a tunnel (that is, a router that runs AURP) is called an exterior router. | | | Zones are defined by the AppleTalk network manager during the router configuration process. | | | The exterior router sends AppleTalk data packets and routing information through the foreign network by encapsulating the packets with the header information required by the foreign network system. |
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http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/tr1909.htm
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| | AppleTalk Retirement Project FAQ |
| | AppleTalk was included as part of the standard Apple system software and it made an attractive method for implementing other networking functions. | | | Vendors implementing client/server applications used AppleTalk as a method for sharing information between computers. | | | AppleTalk was created so that users could locate and access LaserWriters as a shared resource. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/networking/atalk/atfaq.html
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| | Appletalk Protocol |
| | This is because the format of the protocol table depends on the specific Appletalk implementation, the MPP driver in the System file expects a different format than that in ROM. | | | There is a lot of traffic going on on a typical Appletalk network, and each node has to filter out only those packets that it needs to receive, that is, those where the destination node ID matches its own ID, or where the destination ID is $FF (broadcast packets). | | | The distinction between the two packet formats is made in the third byte of the header, the LAP protocol type. |
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http://www.mactech.com:16080/articles/mactech/Vol.05/05.07/AppletalkProtocol
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| | LocalTalk to EtherTalk |
| | It was obvious to everybody involved that the LaserWriter was turning out to be a pretty expensive peripheral device and it didn't make much sense to use it on only one computer. | | | From those humble beginnings, AppleTalk evolved into a full-fledged set of networking protocols for file sharing and communications. | | | Way back in the early days of the Mac, one of the things you could do to hold yourself above the ever growing crowd of people who used those other machines was set up a network almost instantly. |
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http://www.math.louisville.edu/~lee/macwritings/LCN9910.shtml
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| | Apple Talk Migration |
| | This change is precipitated by the needed replacement of aging hardware and software that must occur to implement the next generation backbone network in support of the high bandwidth requirements of on-going research at the lab, i.e. | | | As a consequence, all current AppleTalk-based computing services that communicate from different IP subnets using the Appletalk protocol will need to be upgraded to supports IP (see Printing and Windows NT File Servers), or be on the same IP subnet. | | | See the following sections for solutions if you were affected by this change |
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http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/mac/appletalk/appletalk.html
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| | In Defense of AppleTalk? |
| | If he's willing to cast the designers and Mac users into a nightmare hell of lost print jobs, Postscript errors, and sluggish file access, then by all means, turn off Appletalk on the switches. | | | Dedicate one of your technicians to be always available to answer the help desk calls from the Mac users who can't print any more. | | | In the networks where I've implemented this change, I've seen many Postscript errors and printing slowdowns. |
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http://www.mrbarrett.com/essays/appletalk.html
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| | AppleTalk Packages |
| | The Columbia AppleTalk Package (CAP) implements the AppleTalk protocol stack on a variety of UNIX machines. | | | Route AppleTalk packets via ethernet interfaces on UNIX hosts or ethernet, fast-ethernet or LocalTalk interfaces on Open Transport-equipped Macintoshes. | | | The IPTalk adev can be used to connect IP-only Macs to an AppleTalk network using IPTalk compatible gateways - should be considered obsolete. |
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http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/appletalk/atalk.html
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| | Macs and Windows 2000 |
| | Therefore, if AppleTalk is unavailable for some reason when MacFile starts, then it will simply run the TCP/IP code only and ignore the AppleTalk part, leaving it uninitialized. | | | By changing zones on the 'confused' server, AppleTalk is requesting zone/range information from the seed router, and synching back up with the (misconfigured) seed router - also causing the problem to disappear. | | | As soon as I checked it on the other Windows informed me that I can only have incoming connections on one NIC so the other one is now unchecked for me. Now the users can see the server in the Chooser and all is well. |
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http://www.macwindows.com/Win2000.html
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| | AppleTalk |
| | If you can not see any AppleTalk Zones in the Chooser, there is something incorrect or broken with either your computer's network connection or the entire department's AppleTalk routing. | | | Your nearest AppleTalk router (FastPath) is functioning at least partially correctly. | | | Is your nearest AppleTalk router (FastPath) is functioning at least partially correctly? |
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http://www.ics.uci.edu/~truesdel/MacGuide.folder/AppleTalk.html
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| | AppleTalk printer installation |
| | This page does not want to be a substitute to the more complete and in depth page How to setup the printer using AppleTalk by Werner Eugster, from which I have gotten all the information with the additional help of a post by Donu Arapura, in the Linuxppc list archives. | | | For G3s there is a patch available to make it work with those computers. | | | You make it work by hooking up the AppleTalk printer to the serial port and the ethernet port either to a hub or to another computer (cross over cable). |
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http://gdr.free.fr/linux2.html
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| | Alternatives to Appletalk |
| | Appletalk Filing Protocol version 2.1 and 2.2 (developer's technote, PDF format) | | | UNC Macintosh users will soon face a situation where it will be necessary to mask Appletalk broadcasts at the switch level (i.e., between buildings) in the interests of greater network robustness. | | | It is critical that users requiring campus-wide file sharing and printing on their Macintoshes evaluate IP-based solutions with their own needs in mind. |
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http://www.unc.edu/dande/eval/appletalk
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| | ApplePrint: How to setup the printer using AppleTalk |
| | This will be done by using the psf filter which will invoke the pap program to access the printer. | | | However, I am a Linux user and want to have access to this AppleTalk printer, and thus my description given here does exactly that: allow Linux users to print on an AppleTalk printer. | | | As I mentioned before, the Unix name of the printer in the printcap file has no relation to the name the printer has in the AppleTalk zone. |
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http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html
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| | AppleTalk |
| | Addressing is dynamic with each computer, when powered on, choosing its last used address or a random address. | | | Using CSMA/CA for media access, computers will first determine if any other computers are transmitting, before they transmit. | | | There are 32 maximum nodes per segment with 254 maximum number of nodes per network. |
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http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/networking/guide/netappletalk.html
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| | Filtering AppleTalk using Ebtables |
| | One simple method of discovering the MAC address is to send the AppleTalk object a few aecho packets, and then read the MAC address from /proc/net/aarp. | | | Therefore, on this page I describe one method to add external filters to netatalk, on the basis of the MAC address associated with an AppleTalk object or node. | | | For this the MAC addresses of the AppleTalk nodes that are not to be routed must be known. |
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http://ebv.mimnet.northwestern.edu/~aiyar/appletalk-filter.html
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| | Quiotix Embedded AppleTalk |
| | The Macintosh computer has been extremely successful at simplifying many networking tasks which are significantly more difficult to accomplish with other types of computers. | | | The embedded AppleTalk protocol implementation, PrintServer application, ModemServer application, RemoteAccess application and AppleTalk router are all available for immediate license. | | | We offer a high performance, portable implementation of AppleTalk Phase II, which is extremely well-suited to running in embedded environments, and designed to make it easy to develop AppleTalk network devices. |
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http://www.quiotix.com/atinfo.html
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| | AppleTalk Australia - Articles |
| | AppleTalk™ is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. | | | - AppleTalk - The site, discussion and events | | | DHCP - cant get IP, from DHCP server? |
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http://www.appletalk.com.au/articles/index.php?article=4433
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| | Research Systems Unix Group: netatalk |
| | netatalk is a freely-available, kernel-level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite originally developed for BSD-derived sytems. | | | A Unix system running netatalk is capable of serving multiple Macintosh clients simultaneously as an AppleTalk router, AppleShare file server, Unix print server and for accessing AppleTalk printers via Printer Access Protocol (PAP). | | | Last modified: Sun Dec 15 23:32:36 EST 2002 |
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http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/netatalk.html
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