Itg's unlikely that a modern Ethernet or WiFi device, could perform the hardware and software protocols corresponding to even older networking standards, including Appletalk. I think such emulators would have to be built from the ground up. They are likely painful to build reliably and flexibly. Remember my concept - sufficient to "echo", handshake some packets - not a full emulation. That said, I happen to know, AppleTalk did run "over Ethernet", through simple devices that physically routed AppleTalk traffic on the Ethernet wires. But the Ethernet devices themselves, ignored that "traffic" - probably saw it as bad packets, noise, etc. This was done to put Apple printers on Ethernet networks - except of course any Ethernet-owning device had zero access to Apple printers, and Apple computers had zero access to Ethernet devices. People who buy Appletalk printer to Ethernet devices, thinking they are their magic road to "internet their Macs", find out eventually that won't happen. So it may be possible, for a few network protocols to share the same cable. But they would not be "interoperative" - that calls for hard work. Companies and careers were made, doing such things in the era. We poor hobbyists live in the shadows of such giants. The amazing thing, would be to get some ancient networking protocol to work AT ALL. I suggest humility, and avoid the simple notion "I can plug it in - so it will work, or could". Herb On 5/25/2018 3:54 PM, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
Another consideration, as I mentioned is "whom do I talk to?" That MIGHT suggest, construction of some modern device (Arduino or RaspPi based) to act as a peer. NOthing fancy, just enough to validate a *real* networking device. While some of us have several node-computers to toy with, many individuals
I made a joke to someone at VCF who had built a similar device to the wifi232 that he should make it do AppleTalk to some sort of massive AppleTalk Cloud server that connects tons of people together for file sharing. Kind of like a BBS? Not sure how AppleTalk permissions work though.
Printer emulation even! Could print to pdf.
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