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Re: (ASCEND) Re: AppleTalk over PPP
At 09:09 AM 5/9/97 +0000, Scott Kozicki wrote:
>
>sorta. The Max does AppleTalk routing now. If I dial in using AppleTalk
>Remote Access (ARA) I can become a host to the AppleTalk network that
>the Max is connected to, and obviously, it would be routed. But I cannot
>access AppleTalk services if I'm dialing in via PPP. *THAT'S* what I
>want. Apple doesn't make a PPP client that will support this, but other
>companies do, and support for PPTP is forthcoming. But the Max knows
>nothing about AppleTalk over PPP. So even if I have the Max doing
>routing for AT, I can't really use it unless I have my clients dial in
>using ARA. I don't want to use ARA because they can't easily use IP
>based services (they can, but performance sucks) and they certainly
>can't use PPTP based services like IPX.
>
>So my question is: will Ascend officially comment on either a direction
>or timeframe of when they would implement support for AppleTalk over PPP
>for dial in clients?
OK. I have been informed :)
I will talk to our tech support group about this to determine if this
should be a TR, or if this is a request for new functionality...since
I read the docs as implying we did support AT over PPP (ATCP)....
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