Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. MacIP refers to encapsulating Internet Protocol (IP) packets within the AppleTalk DDP protocol. MacIP was part of the solution to the problem of how to provide computers that have native LocalTalk networking capabilities with access to TCP/IP based network services. Software implem ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. MacIP refers to encapsulating Internet Protocol (IP) packets within the AppleTalk DDP protocol. MacIP was part of the solution to the problem of how to provide computers that have native LocalTalk networking capabilities with access to TCP/IP based network services. Software implementing MacIP (such as MacTCP or Open Transport) was installed on the computer and a MacIP Gateway was placed elsewhere on the network. Applications that communicate with TCP/IP (such as Telnet) have their IP packets encapsulated in DDP for transmission across the LocalTalk network to the MacIP Gateway. The MacIP Gateway strips off the DDP encapsulation and forwards the IP packet on the IP network.