Sam Peterson wrote:
Appletalk is Apple's old home networking protocol. It's not used very
much anymore.
It is actually, but most Mac networks. These days it's encapsulated in
TCP/IP
[summer@bilby log]$ grep -w 548 /etc/services
afpovertcp 548/tcp # AFP over TCP
afpovertcp 548/udp # AFP over TCP
[summer@bilby log]$
You can still get a brace of Apples and wire them together without a
server and start sharing files, music, photos, video and what have you.
No DHCP or DNS required. As far as I can see it's much easier to use
than Windows networks: Windows uses DNS to find a domain controller from
which it can find printers etc whereas the Apples running OS (including
the latest OS X) just find them.
If you have Apple's wireless, just being in range of the Airport's
enough, depending on whether (and how) it's configured.
Read up on Zeroconf, Rendezvous and Bonjour. Some of it's in Linux, but
it needs spit and polish applied. Lots of spit and polish.
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Cheers
John
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