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Since its now available, the Phase 2 Addendum is a good document to review: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/communications/AppleTalk/C0144LLA_AppleTalk_Phase_2_Protocol_Specification_Addendum_1989.pdf Inside AppleTalk covers this, but not all together in one place. @iigs123, does the...

The heavy lifting of LocalTalk-to-Ethertalk Phase 1 or 2 would be handled by the bridge device, not TailTalk. For Phase 2 operation, if there is no router found on the network after issuing a ZIPGetNetInfo request, TailTalk should grab a random address via AARP from the startup range (65280 to...

Clients on the iPrint should be sending NBP Broadcast Request directly to the router on the network. NBP Lookups should only be coming from a router. Does the iPrint support networks with zones (and thus routers)? It goes without saying that you need to turn the iPrint on after you turn on...

From Inside AppleTalk: Node ID $FF indicates a broadcast to all nodes with a network number equal to that indicated by the specified network number. As long as this network number is nonzero, the packet is refered to as a network-specific broadcast. Although it will be received by all AppleTalk...

09:00:07:FF:FF:FF is the default broadcast address for EtherTalk Phase 2 and it could change depending on zone. Only Phase 1 used FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Network "0" should only appear on broadcast packets (ie: 0.255), otherwise its not valid. The ImageWriter LocalTalk card has a few NBP bugs too...

It should be working at the moment..... I need to pull out my RPi and check with 4.5.

Well, at least we know that there was SOME reasoning behind that Low End Mac article on the x200/x300 machines being brain dead.

Netatalk (and I presume Apple's AFP server) all mangle the longer AFP 3.x Unicode names down to 31 characters for AFP 2.x clients using some digits of the CNID value at the end to keep them unique and somewhat linked to the parent file.

I'll get it over later today. I'm assuming this is detected as an off-the-shelf USB-to-serial bridge. The user is likely to have to select a device, but thats for me to figure out. Kinda wish it was easier, but its annoying to get custom USB VID/PID identifiers. Not to mention it costs money.

Ah, the joys of dealing with pre-Unicode systems and protocols. I eventually have to get one of these USB adapters. Now that Netatalk 4.5 is out, I'd like to add support to A2SERVER and finally get it out the door.

http://www.applefool.com/se30/files/ASWS1.1%20Installer.image.Hqx

AppleShare 1.1 should work with System 4/Finder 5.5. The disk is bootable and contains that system version. I use that version in mini vMac (its 800k so I think it targets the Plus/512ke) to test AFP 1.1 protocol compatibility with Netatalk.

Ugh, the Audi Music Interface... because for some reason we just couldn't put a USB port in the car. I think some B7 head units supported AMI, but the feature was natively available in B8 MLB cars starting in 2009 for the A4 (2008 for the new A5). The point of having the cable (besides making...

Whats annoying is that I can't reliability reproduce the no icon bus error problem with Apple's clients. I know ASC 3.7.4 is a buggy mess (refuses to connect to a server with a FPGetSrvrInfo reply over 512 bytes), but this is the first I've read that ASC 3.8.3 crashes with no icon data. The AFP...

The G3 will stay connected via TCP/IP on Ethernet as that is controlled separately. If you want to bridge LocalTalk to Ethernet, install Apple's LocalTalk Bridge 2.1 control panel.