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From: David Henshaw <dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Connecting a MAC to a BSD box
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:12:43 +1000
Organization: Monash University
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> 
> No problem with software. You just configure the Mac in the TCP/IP
> control panel for direct Ethernet. Now you can run telnet to get
> a terminal, WWW, FTP and all other Internet applications.
> 
> You need CAP or netatalk only if you want to share printers or
> want the FreeBSD machine to be an AppleTalk server. I know
> netatalk also let the FreeBSD box print out on printers connected
> to the Mac's LocalTalk port.
> 
Okay....so I probably won't need CAP

> Even more fun, if you have a modem to your PC that you use for
> connecting with PPP to an ISP then you can configure so that
> the Mac can reach the Internet too trough the sane connection
> at the same time. But that is a longer story.
> 
May consider this later.

> But I may have missunderstood your question. Do you want to do a
> PPP connection from the Mac serial port to the PC serial port
> to save to cost of buying an Ethernet card?
> 
> /kgb

Actually I would like to know what hardware and software I will need for
the MAC and the BSD box.  Ideally I'd like to use the MAC "as-is" since
it already has all that AppleTalk stuff installed.  My question is what
hardware and software do I need on the respective "sides/computers" to
establish a TCP/IP link.
-- 
David Henshaw
dhenshaw@silas.cc.monash.edu.au