on 10/15/01 5:13 PM, James Elliott at rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Jon Glass <jonglass_at_usa.net>wrote:
>>> Are you crazy? My wife's going crazy because I _haven't_ yet wired our flat!
>>> She want to be able to print without having to drag a phone cable from the
>>> living room to the office where the printer is. :-) I'm resisting doing a
>>> LocalTalk net, and holding out for an ethernet setup. :-)
>>
>> I have a LocalTalk network running through the built-in phone lines
>> in my house. It's awesome since I can print and share files from any
>> room with a phone jack. The only problem is that the LocalTalk
>> bridge went down, so I can't access the cable modem from the LT
>> machines. Otherwise I would be trying to get online with the Newt
>> that way. That will have to wait until I can scrape together some
>> more cash, though.
>>
>> -James
>
> I left out the most important bit of that message. I was wondering
> about connecting the Newt (120(2.0)) to the LocalTalk net and then
> going through a bridge to a router on the ethernet network. That is
> how a couple of my desktops connect. I had reason to believe that
> this would work, but then some mention was made (a while ago when I
> didn't have time to respond) that this would not work. Might someone
> clarify?
That should work. The LocalTalk packet from your 120 should be encapsulated
by the router for printer delivery.
-Laurent.
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