From: dewayne@netcom.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Subject: New version of NET/Mac (PA2AGA Version) Available
Keywords: tcp/ip macintosh NET/Mac
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:51:50 GMT

        A new release of the PA2AGA version of NET/Mac, version 2.3.15
has recently  been  posted.    There have been some major new function
added to this release and the purpose of this  notice  is  to  explain
some of those enhancements.
 
o       New AppleTalk Driver Code
 
        The  previous version of NET/Mac used a driver which supported
the AppleTalk (AT) Link Access Protocol (LAP).  As a  result,  a  user
was  limited to being able to only establish sessions with other users
on the same AT network.  The new  release  uses  a  Datagram  Delivery
Protocol  (DDP)  driver  which  now supports establishing connnections
with all users in the same AT zone.  All problems with checksum errors
that were a result of the old LAP-based code have been corrected.
 
o       Support of MacIP Protocol
 
        This release  of  NET/Mac  supports  the MacIP protocol.  This
means that NET/Mac can now support AT gateway  products  such  as  the
Shiva FastPath and Cayman Gatorbox.  As a result, NET/Mac can now pass
packets to an Ethernet  IP  network  via  any  gateway  product  which
supports the MacIP protocol for encapsulating IP in AT DDP packets.
        NET/Mac can also now interoperate with Apple's MacTCP product.
This means that any Macintosh application which supports MacTCP,  such
as NCSA  TELNET  can  now  talk to NET/Mac over an AT network.  Please
note that NET/Mac and MacTCP can not run on the same  machine  at  the
same  time  as  there  will  be  a  conflict over the use of the MacIP
socket.
 
o       Support for the SLFP Protocol
 
        NET/Mac now supports the  MIT  Serial  Line  Framing  Protocol
(SLFP) which  is  used  at  MIT  and the Merit Computer Network.  This
support has been available in NOS for sometime and as a result of user
requests it has been added to NET/Mac.
 
o       Support for the Buckmaster HamCall CD-ROM
 
        NET/Mac now supports the format used for the callsign database
provided on the Buckmaster HamCall  CD-ROM.    The  callsign  database
format used  in  previous  versions  is  no  longer supported.  Anyone
interested in  using  the  callsign  database  lookup  support  should
contact Buckmaster for information on obtaining their CD-ROM.
 
        This  new  release  is  available in the incoming directory of
ucsd.edu.  It is also available at all SUMEX mirror sites and  America
Online.   Any  support  questions  or  comments  should be directed to
myself or Adam van Gaalen PA2AGA at adam@IGG.TNO.NL.


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Dewayne Hendricks, WA8DZP          ! CIS: 75210,10    AppleLink: D6547
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