In article <16358fe6-2ae1-4eb4-8ed0-e6c0f334730e@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>, DJW <ddwr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am using them on a local talk network with a Blue & white G-3 so I > need the Asante talk Box to get with the older network type that the > printer and older Macs are on. Asante says I need to terminate at both > ends I never tried it with out them. What might I find if I try them > and they really needed them? Data transfer errors? Might it have > intermittent problems? Or not even work at all? Does Asante know for > sure that I need them or just want a user to use them so they don't > get a ton or tech questions?
I use both Shiva FastPathV's and Farallon StarRouters to bridge my LocalTalk Segments to my local LAN. These are full blown Bidirectional LocalTalk Routers, that also support MacIP tunneled in AppleTalk, and are really nice devices if you need full BiDirection LocalTalk support. The Asanate Boxes are really only partial Bridges and were really only designed to pass Postscript, and Localtalk Printing packets when Ethernet was taking over the networking hardware from LocalTalk. I started out using LocalTalk, way back in the 512KE days, with a 3000 ft Segment that connected two seperate Localtalk Zones. With the upgrade to Ethernet for the two distant Zones, but no real technology, other than LocalTalk, to connect the two areas into a common LAN, I got the FastPathv's to do the Routing, and provide the connection via, the 3000 Ft LocalTalk Segment. Then Tut Systems came out with the XL-4000 DSL Bridge/Router Series of Boxes that would pass 10Mbs on a pair of unconditioned Phone wires, the same as I had with the LocalTalk Segment, and installed a Pair in place of the FastPathV's which brought 10BaseT speeds to the entire LAN. The FastPaths were then reconfigured to provide legacy connections to the MacSE's Localtalk Segments from the Ethernet Segments on both ends of the Tut Systems link. I then acquired two Farallon StarRouters to replace the Star Controllers that did the LocalTalk Hub switching as part of the Legacy LocalTalk Segments, as the StarRouter could do both the Star Controllers job as well as the FastPathV's job, in a sing;e box. I keep one FastPathV running to provide for a legacy Apple PostScript Laser Printer. Most of the MacSE's are now retired, but there are still a couple that provide support for legacy Software that will only run on MacOS 7.5.5, and I keep a 8600/300, upgraded to a G4/800 and Mac OS8.6, to do the post processing of that Data. I also keep a couple of Dual Boot MDD's with MacOS9.2.2/OSX 10.4.11 should I need to get into the Legacy software from those Olden Days.
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