[olug] AppleTalk ports

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Phil Brutsche wrote:

> Trent Melcher wrote:
>
>> Actually, I believe your firewall has to support Appletalk for it to
>> work, since Appletalk in itself is a networking protocol.  It doesn't
>> actually ride on TCP/IP.
>
>
> AppleTalk does, indeed, go over TCP/IP, provided the Mac in question 
> has a TCP/IP stack ;) And yes, with MacOS classic TCP/IP was optional 
> for certain older releases - certianly Mac0S 8.<mumble> and higher 
> includes it out of the box.  If this was MacOS X you could just use 
> it's native SMB support ;)
>
> I think you're thinking of EtherTalk.
>
AppleTalk over TCP/IP _is_ EtherTalk, IIRC.  Just like it's LocalTalk 
over a serial line, and TokenTalk over token ring.

Tim