Farallon LocalPath

[pl212]

I’m 99% sure this is a software router between LocalTalk and Ethernet, but I’m interested in the software CDEV and the “Forward Transfer Algorithm” they mention.

The LocalPath CDEV displays all available LocalTalk devices. From the Control Panel, you can easily configure LocalPath to "hide" LocalTalk devices from other users on the Ethernet or Token Ring network, making them available only to the host Macintosh.

Doesn’t seem to be preserved on Macintosh Garden…

 

[finkmac]

there's a copy in one of the buzzard's nest bbs archives.

 

[NJRoadfan]

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.

 

[Nixontheknight]

there's a copy in one of the buzzard's nest bbs archives.

link? I might upload it to the Macintosh Repository, so I can download it on my LC III, would be cool to share internet connection to powerbooks or Macs that don't exactly have ethernet, or vice versa

 

[pl212]

The other thing that’s interesting is the notion of a “LocalTalk scanner.” I honestly can’t remember any of these existing, but it does make sense from a share-the-cost perspective. (We are well before the era of networked multifunction printers here.)

 

[NJRoadfan]

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

 

[Mk.558]

Pretty much like LocalTalk Bridge. Interesting in that it runs under System 6, but not much else I found interesting about it. If you'd like a speed test, I can do that too but given that LocalTalk struggles to go beyond 20KiB/sec even on the best of times, I wouldn't expect much. I'd imagine the most they can do is either compression or caching of some kind...not sure how you'd do that though. Like all the other software routers/bridges/gateways, if a file transfer or any other serial traffic is in use, the machine bogs down quite a bit.

P.S. If you need a $ ls -lR file list dump of the Eagles Nest discs, lmk.