Apple IIe card + SCSI ethernet

[Realitystorm]

Has anyone experimented yet with SCSI ethernet + an Apple IIe card?

I was thinking of experimenting with the Apple IIe card's AppleShare Card feature that emulates an Apple IIe Workstation Card.

1. First, over a legacy wired LocalTalk connection from my LC475 + Apple IIe card to my LC 630 DOS running an AppleShare file server sharing a ProDOS partition.
2. Second, AppleTalk over ethernet using my LC475 + Asante EN/SC (SCSI ethernet) to the Ethernet connection on my LC 630 DOS
3. Third, AppleTalk routed over a TCP/IP connection using IPTnnl, Apple Internet Router, or similar with my LC 475 and the SCSI Wifi feature of the ZuluSCSI / BlueSCSI adapters.

I'm fairly confident I can get the first configuration up an running.
And I thought the second configuration would be straight forward, but I recently found a TIL article that seems to indicate I will need Apple II drivers for my Asante EN/SC SCSI to ethernet adapter? Macintosh LC w/Apple IIe Card: SCSI Ethernet Box & AppleTalk (TA48214).
"Our driver is designed to use the Apple Ethernet LC Card and not to look for the Ethernet connection from the SCSI port"

Not sure how that work since you can't install an ethernet card at the same time as the Apple IIe card in most systems !?!

And for the third... if the emulated Apple IIe has to talk directly to the hardware, this might not be possible.
So before I spin my wheels on this, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone has tried this already?

 

[NJRoadfan]

This isn't going to work with Ethernet. The IIe card software likely only has support for LocalTalk. AppleTalk is a two part system on the Apple II. One part of the stack is resident in ROM (or the IIe card software in this case) and supports all the lower level protocols, while the OS loads support for the rest. Apple would have had to written the IIe card's software to support AppleTalk Phase 2 along with EtherTalk framing, which isn't likely.

 

[Byte Knight]

This should work, as I was able to get my IIe card to connect to a modified A2SERVER with my BlueSCSI a while back. I believe the emulated IIe Workstation Card just uses whatever AppleTalk connection you have set up on the Mac side of things.

 

[Realitystorm]

This should work, as I was able to get my IIe card to connect to a modified A2SERVER with my BlueSCSI a while back. I believe the emulated IIe Workstation Card just uses whatever AppleTalk connection you have set up on the Mac side of things.

That is what I was hoping, that is great news. Now to find the time to experiment. Perhaps a later version of the Apple IIe emulator software added more support for network devices.

 

[Byte Knight]

The link for the modified A2SERVER, which runs on a Pi up to the 3B+, is here if you're interested.