Design and Implementation of an Appletalk Local Area Network Bridge Using Packet Radio

This paper presents the design and successful implementation of a local area network bridge based on the link layer AX.25 packet radio protocol and the AppleTalk Personal Network on the Macintosh computer. Opera&d as a duplex communication channel between interconnected networks of computers, the packet radio system provides the transmission of the network layer data packets. A working prototype of the bridge was developed for slow rates. A higher-speed bridge will require a faster packet radio and faster hardware for the bridge.