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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    I have a feeling that the terminating null character is somehow getting eaten, or the length of the string. This looks like a buffer overrun of some sort. EDIT: Looking at the dumps someone did here on a real LocalTalk network, looks like Namer is working fine and sending the correct packets to...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    What happens if you choose a name without a space in it? Something is a bit off there. Oddly I don't see the ESC sequence in the debug being sent to the printer to rename it.
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    The printer is responding to the NBPLkup packets back to TashRouter as expected. The changes to TashRouter are supposed to relay/transmit the response back to the requesting machine.
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    Help needed finding docs on Program Linking/Apple Events, aka PPCToolBox

    Have you seen this blog post?: http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-apple-network-servers-all-too.html
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    Transformers for homemade LocalTalk/PhoneNet dongles

    The patent for PhoneNET gives a model number!
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    Transformers for homemade LocalTalk/PhoneNet dongles

    That differs a bit from Apple's specs. They state two primary windings connected in series, maybe to boost output power? That's likely with their 3-pin cables. Phonenet was designed to be cheap, so lets just ignore the balanced RX/TX and use it to power pretty LEDs instead. Looks like the...
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    Transformers for homemade LocalTalk/PhoneNet dongles

    You are looking for a 1:1:1 winding transformer or transformer with double primary winding. I would check the inductance and other parameters of the part in the PhoneNet box with a meter. Chances are they aren't within Apple's official specs.
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    Transformers for homemade LocalTalk/PhoneNet dongles

    http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/components/national/_appNotes/AN-0967.pdf Says a 1:1 transformer is needed, but not much else specification-wise. Some USENET postings on it: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc/c/og1psm79-BU/m/ztt_qHJbFWYJ
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    Transformers for homemade LocalTalk/PhoneNet dongles

    Has anyone split apart a PhoneNet box to see what they used? I'm sure plenty of companies played fast and loose with the standard if it meant finding a cheaper part.
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    Netatalk 2.3.0 available

    There is a way to give a guest account read/write access to a share. A2SERVER does it for... reasons. You can do this in afpd.conf with the -guestname option followed by the user name in quotes whose permissions you want to inherit.
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    TashTwenty: Single-Chip DCD (Hard Disk 20) Interface

    Can it be mounted with CiderPress II? https://github.com/fadden/CiderPress2
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    OK, found a reference to ImageWriter use and the FastPath. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.protocols.appletalk/c/jP17dkifuOU/m/QzUJvNIL-T0J Looks like the faulty checksums are passed thru the Fastpath and some clients balked at them. NBP was working for them though. I have both K-STAR 8.1.1...
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    DOS 3.3 Commands?

    The Apple II machines have "screen" editors like the C64 has, where you can LIST a line and edit it. You have to hit ESC and move the cursor to the line you want to change.
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    OK, more investigation revealed that the Fastpath is actually sending the source network's router in the NBPLkup extended DDP packet, which may not be the Fastpath itself. I didn't notice because my source node doing the lookup was also a router (netatalk's atalkd). Turning off netatalk and...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    Its too bad I don't have an ImageWriter to confirm this, but I suspect this card is dumber than anyone expects. Its entirely possible that it just checks for DDP packets of type = 2 (NBP) and sends a response. That is, if anyone sends a NBPLkup on the network, even for types that aren't an...
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    DOS 3.3 Commands?

    Just type the line number you want to change and the revised line of code. You can list a specific section of your program by specifying the line number range ex: LIST 10-20. The original Applesoft BASIC manual is here...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    This is how I'm interpreting the behavior of the ImageWriter LocalTalk card. The card doesn't seem to read the sender's address in the NBPLkup packet's tuple at all, instead: -If the card receives a short form DDP NBPLkup, it sends the reply back to the node in the LLAP header. -If the card...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    I modified TashRouter to send out long DDP headers over LocalTalk for Multicast packets along with the above changes. Boxen like the Fastpath don't have the resources to keep track of NBPLkups, so a hack that isn't resource intensive is always a plus. Sadly Apple's docs have gaps and Apple's...
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    TashRouter: An AppleTalk Router

    OK, re-reading the USENet post about how the Weber Multigate fixed the ImageWriter issues, basically the Fastpath does this out of the box. It mudges all NBPLkup packets it generates with the original sender's address in the DDP header source fields. The way TashRouter does it is technically the...
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    IIGS high speed scsi

    The Apple SCSI cards use drives with Apple Partition Map. You could partition them that way if needed, with ProDOS partitions of course. You can't make them bootable on a Mac though. If someone has an image file of a IIgs hard drive with partitions, you could dd it onto the drive.
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