Date   : Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:58:24 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Back from Byte-Back!

Chris Johns wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > Yes, Acorn, it's called !Gateway, and it comes on the AUN disks.
> That only allows AUN-compatible clients on the Econet side to talk to the
> ethernet side, so you can't get a beeb to logon to a Level 4 fileserver
> that's across the gateway. (but you can logon to a file server that is the
 
Yes, you can, that's what I used to do every day back at AFE.
 
Refering to <http://mdfs.net/User/JGH/Docs/AFE/Network> I usually
used stations 3.107 and 3.108. Station 2.236/3.236 ran !Gateway,
and telnet and NFS servers.
 
To remotely administer the printer servers on stations 2.125 and
2.126 I ran L4FS fileserver on them as well, with the whole disk
exported.
 
> !Gateway just routes IP packets from the IP-over-Econet to
> IP-over-Ethernet sides; I don't think there has ever been a true bridge
> that would let you talk from a beeb on the econet side to an archimedes or
> PC on the ethernet side.
 
We definitely had a system that routed NetFS-over-Econet to and
from NetFS-over-Ethernet.
 
All 8-bit and 32-bit Acorn systems could *I AM to servers on 4.10,
4.12, 4.15, 4.19, 4.254 and my test server on 3.106.
 
All 8-bit and 32-bit Acorn systems and all the PCs could telnet
into the UNIX system on 2.236/3.236.
 
All 32-bit Acorn systems and all the PCs could mount an NFS mount
on the UNIX system on 2.236/3.236.
 
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