Howto network minivmac v0.37 on a Raspberry Pi?

AndiS

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Hi!

I am running minivmac on a Raspberry Pi (Zero2 W) and want to bring it online (Internet, Filesharing). I have spent two evening reading everything I came across - The long netatalk and tashtalk/router threads, multiple websites, Github Pages, Wikis and so on. But I still cannot get my head around all that.

What I already did:

* Compiled minivmac 0.37 with LToUDP support - I have reasons to belive this does work.
* installed netatalk packages on the same Raspi minivmac runs. - I am able to connect to this from a Mac OS 9 machine but only when entering the correct IP address. So the server part seems to work, the appletalk magic (Chooser) not so much.

I don't have problems reading and understanding manpages, Wikis and such. I do have a problem though to decide what I actually need to get this working.

netatalk, tashrouter, macipgw bridge interfaces and whatnot.

So what i am asking is this: Can anyone tell me what I really need and what the parts are supposed to do. The configuration I can then figure out myself. As a reminder - I want to run everything on the same Raspi and I do not care about connections to real LocalTalk serial interfaces.
 
It seems that noone here as successfully done this setup and I am not too surprised.

I'll ask somewhat differently then:

Can anyone explain how LToUDP networking is supposed to work and how all the software packages around AppleTalk and TCP/IP work together or what they do.

What's covered by netatalk, by macipgw, what does Tashrouter do? (to what Ethernet interfaces) I have read all their docs but am missing a short and definite description that helps understanding.

Thank you!
 
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