Re: Clarification ... appletalk <--> TCP

Michael Breuer (mbreuer@majjas.com)
Tue, 27 Feb 1996 21:53:25 -0500

Thanks... as near as I can tell, the specification is "Kinetics Internet
Protocol" (KIP). As per the Open Transport 1.1b16 technical
information, the encapsulated IP packets are sent over appletalk DDP to
a specific gateway address. The gateway is responsible for routing IP.
I don't have a spec for this, but I think I know someone who does. It
will be a couple of days, but I'll post whatever I find out.

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > as a TCP interface. MacOS tunnels TCP over appletalk. Is there any
> > software on the linux side (or any way to configure netatalk) which
> > supports this feature?
>
> Not at the moment. Do you have a spec for this (I assume there is an RFC
> on stuffing IP into appletalk). If its not too hard it should be possible
> to add it to the kernel. We do IP over AX.25, IP over NetROM and IP over IP
> tunnels already.
>
> If its just a take an IP datagram wrap it up this way and stuff it down
> a DDP connection type scheme its probably possible for someone to know
> up the required bits.
>
> Alan