AppleTalk vs. TCP/IP was: SOLVED! vserver client error 9

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/6/03 10:50 PM, Kevin Windham at kevo at gatorgraphics.com wrote:

> Ruslan,
> 
> AppleTalk is simply a network protocol on the same level as TCP/IP,
> IPX/SPX, or others. It was the first such protocol for the Mac, and was
> far ahead of it's time due to the fact that devices could
> auto-configure their own addresses, and they had a sort of built-in
> locator service like DNS, but no configuration required.
> 
> It is still around for backwards compatibility, and as Keith mentioned
> in another email, it is a wonderfully easy way to print to almost any
> network printer. No IP address setup required.
> 
> Now, as for MacTCP, that was an implementation of the TCP/IP protocol
> on Macs before Open Transport was introduced in System 7.5.2, if I
> remember correctly. MacTCP and Appletalk are not really brothers. They
> actually used completely separate code. However, OpenTransport did
> unify AppleTalk and TCP/IP in the sense that all network protocols were
> built on top of the Open Transport system at a lower level. That system
> was based on Mentat streams.
> 
> From the previous discussion, it sounds that maybe GUSI is using some
> OpenTransport compatibility under OS X that is getting confused with
> the AppleTalk implementation of OS X. Maybe that is causing the library
> to fail to load. I would check there first.

Thank you for info, Kevin.

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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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