AppleTalk games over the internet — #12

Post #12 by bbraun

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Networking
Post Date	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 - 03:15
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/appletalk-games-over-the-internet.19277/

Post

I saw in the logs you successfully connected and exchanged packets.

Apparently I cannot see what you have bridged to the server, using Mac OS 9 anyway.

It'll just show up in the chooser under appletalk, assuming you've selected ethertalk as your appletalk device.

But anyway, I connected three macs to the same network. My PowerMac G4 as a client/bridge, and my PowerBook G4 as the other. The two Appletalk computers were my PowerBook G3 and PowerBook 5300c. I had the 5300c connected to the PB G4's ethernet port using my ethernet-to-localtalk device and just told "toofar" to forward all packets on the ethernet port, since it was connected to the other macs wirelessly.
The PowerBook G3 and PowerBook 5300c were able to see each other, but it was really slow, trying to mount and view the folders. Actually, it was soo slow that I couldn't open the other's shared folder. Using Oxyd 3.8 they could see each other, but couldn't connect. And Per.Oxyd they couldn't see each other at all.

This software should not affect local traffic. In theory with such a connection the PBG3 and 5300c should have been able to see an iBookG3 on my side of the connection. However, it sounds as if there is a local networking issue if the two are directly connected and are having problems. I have also not tested with the localtalk to ethertalk bridges.

There are several troubleshooting steps on the abridge page:

http://synack.net/~bbraun/abridge.html