[G4] Using an appletalk printer on an ethernet network with Panther

[JW Holmes]

On Jan 11, 2004, at 11:23 PM, sr ferenczy wrote:

> simple answer - buy a cable/dsl router.
>
> more involved - read apple's support article in regards to this:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106298
>
> personally, when hooking my Lexmark laser up via apple talk, i went 
> with a router (best $25 i ever spent) and it made life simple. i ran 
> into nothing but problems when trying to run appletalk and PPPoE out 
> of my mac and got poor performance out of the printer...
>
> sandor
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2004, at 8:31 PM, JW Holmes wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have a Mac G4 450(AGP) with 768MB RAM running Panther 10.3.2. I am 
>> trying to run an apple laserwriter select 360 via a localtalk bridge 
>> on an ethernet network. I currently have an ethernet hub. The mac is 
>> connected to the hub, from the hub there are connections to the 
>> localtalk bridge and also a dsl modem. I have set up PPoe in my 
>> network connections. I opened a new network an turned on appletalk. 
>> The problem is that I don't seem to be able to use the dsl modem and 
>> connect to the internet without disabling the appletalk connection.  
>> Also, if i want to print I have to disable the PPoe and enable the 
>> appletalk connection. I don't know how but when I was running Jaguar, 
>> I had them both enabled and I was able to do either without having to 
>> change anything using the exact same cables and setup. can someone 
>> tell em what I am doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>> JW
>>
>>
Thanks, I read the article on the Apple tech doc and it solved my 
problem