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It involved a lot of cursing. The previous maintainer of code from roughly 2009 to 2013 was terrible at actually leaving comments on commits. Things were changed and moved around without any explanation of "why" and most of those commits were HUGE. It also didn't help that there were obvious...

The boot PROMs really aren't that important on the FastPath 5, there is nothing to flash. They are only used to bootstrap the device with a VROM and K-STAR file.

I don't expect the dinky DHCP server in my router to respond to netboot stuff. I was mostly worried about Kea deciding to hijack DHCP duties and start assigning addresses to all my other devices on the network. Forcing Kea to respond to only BOOTP requests would be ideal.

Did a LocalTalk scanner actually exist? Everything Apple sold was SCSI re-brands from Canon and the like.

This basically duplicates what Apple's LocalTalk Bridge Control Panel did. Would be curious if it did the same fooling of LocalTalk clients using RTMP that Apple's product did.

Apple removed the Postscript converter that was built into the OS libraries, which is really annoying. It was nice having Preview automatically convert PS files.

This is coming once CUPS 3.0 starts to materialize into a working product. What version of macOS is this? It likely never worked anyway.........Apple long since effectively forked CUPS 2.3 into their own build for macOS while the community maintains it on other platforms still. They likely...

Does this setup interfere with another DHCP server on a network serving addresses, or is kea strictly broadcasting BOOTP packets? I might give this a spin, but don't want it screwing around with address assignments on other devices.

I'm guessing some of this tooling dates from NeXT or early 90s Apple and never updated. DHCP was around for quite some time when the iMac came out.

The current release of Netatalk 2.4 and 4.0 should work out of the box. Just un-comment the "cupsautoadd" line in papd.conf and away you go.

Chris Edwards just put up a video about this with details on the refill. One gotcha is that one of the how-tos online had the wrong replacement o-ring size for the water blocks.

PPP can carry more then just IP as it is a Layer 2 protocol. AppleTalk-over-PPP is native DDP, although you'll have to use Apple's remote access software as a server since the Linux kernel long since dropped what little support it had for PPP based AppleTalk. As for serial port speeds, people...

Given that folks are running LocalTalk over barbed wire fence..... and thru water...... I'm guessing it doesn't matter too much.

Instructions below are Debian specific (should work on Ubuntu) and may need tweaking for your distribution. The janky solution used in A2SERVER involves a systemd service file. https://github.com/NJRoadfan/a2server/blob/currentdev/files/macipgw.service.txt Copy this to...

What is the maximum theoretical transfer speed of NuBus? The bus alone presents a huge bottleneck. Add in that these cards are likely polled I/O driven and not bus mastering DMA (read: Cheap) attached to an OS not exactly known for its I/O throughput.

In other news, all the UAMs in Netatalk now use libgcrypt, simplifying configuration (one library does it all), and satisfying the internet lawyers being 100% GPL compatible*. It only took like 15-20 years for it to happen. *Fun fact: Netatalk bundled with Debian was always compiled with the...

I wasn't able to get Jason's example working on my network. Even when I got the kernel forwarding enabled, packets wouldn't correctly route to the subnet from my main network. I suspect that my home router had a faulty RIP implementation. What does work is what @mactjaap did for the macipgw VM...

If the Ethernet connected Macs aren't seeing a reply to their GetNetInfo packets, you are running into the infamous Linux AppleTalk broadcast kernel bug present in any kernel before 6.9. Move the eth0 line to the last line in your atalkd.conf from my example if it isn't there already. Like this...

Only thing I see in the source that comes to mind is the ProDOS Info Block that contains the File Type/Aux Type information.

The "short name" is the one explained starting on page 13-13 of Inside AppleTalk. It is requested using bit 7 in the file or directory bitmap with a GetFileDirParams call. Apple only specified its usage for MS-DOS clients. Pretty sure ProDOS clients do not use it as the Workstation Card and...