TITLE
    MacTCP CDEV and EtherTalk
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Created:
Modified: 		7513
7/1/91
8/8/91
TOPIC




    I have an EtherTalk board in my Macintosh II and am using MacTCP and NCSA
    Telnet to talk to campus mainframes through an Ethernet backbone.

    When I select Ethernet in the MacTCP CDEV, I can connect to a host through
    Ethernet. However, when I have EtherTalk selected, I cannot make a TCP
    connection to any host. Shouldn't I be able to make a connection with
    EtherTalk selected?

DISCUSSION


    EtherTalk in MacTCP is for sending AppleTalk packets with encapsulated TCP.
    Use this choice for networks that must go through a DDP/IP router. The
    Ethertalk setting creates the Datagram Delivery Packets that the router
    expects.

    Your network apparently has direct access to the TCP host, which lets you
    use the straight packets (Ethernet choice). The way to look at this
    setting is that it's one or the other, not both.



Document Information
Product Area: Communications-Networking
Category: MacTCP
Sub Category: General Topics
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