remote access from MacOS to A/UX over Appletalk?

[William Roberts;]

In <1990Dec8.045720.1507 at wiskit.pdx.com> herbw at wiskit.pdx.com (Herb Weiner) 
writes:

>As far as I can determine (Apple, please correct me if I am wrong), there
>is a brick wall between A/UX programs (like Daemons) and AppleTalk.  They
>can NOT access the Communication Toolbox.  They can not access the AppleTalk
>drivers.  The ONLY thing they can do is print over AppleTalk.

A/UX programs don't talk to the Comms Toolbox - correct.

A/UX programs can and do access the AppleTalk protocols, which are actually 
implemented in A/UX as Streams drivers: the AppleTalk drivers for the A/UX Mac 
emulation are actually dummies which work through the A/UX kernel code, but it 
isn't clear where the split is (the kernel PAP code is probably not used by 
the Mac emulation, for example).

My changes to CAP make use of the A/UX AppleTalk support: the relevant manual 
pages are in section 3N called lap, ddp, atp, nbp, pap, and zip. These manual 
pages don't offer much help and don't seem to include ADSP.

As for your original problem, the short cut would be to hook into the 
AppleTalk streams stuff to get the IP-in-DPP packets fed back into something 
that looks to the kernel like an Ethernet interface, then use NCSA telnet. 
Given ADSP you'd use that instead with a specialised version of getty. Neither 
of these things currently exist.
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