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The episode discusses building an AppleTalk LAN and the legacy of the AppleTalk protocol.

The kernel taketh away, so we bringeth back. We build an AppleTalk LAN, ditch TCP/IP, and give a legendary retro network protocol the send-off it deserves. Sponsored By: Jupiter Party Annual Membership : Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free! Managed Nebula : Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love. Support LINUX Unplugged Links: AppleTalk 1985-2026 Memorial Sticker Jupiter Garage SWAG Sorry, I only open regular files Sticker Web Boost — Send us a boost via sats or USD 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM Nix Vegas @ DEF CON 34 CFP — Submissions close on 2026-07-16 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles) Nix Vegas - Extended CFP, and a sneak preview Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support June 16th 2006 AppleTalk Removed from Kernel — AppleTalk has been removed in MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), in 2009, according to Wikipedia. We recently got a burst of AI generated fixes to this protocol which nobody is reviewing. linux-netdev/mod-orphan — Linux networking modules removed from the kernel due to lack of maintenance and…

People in this episode

Host: Chris Fisher

Topics covered

• AppleTalk
• LAN
• retro network protocol
• TCP/IP
• Linux kernel
• networking

Keywords

• AppleTalk
• LAN
• TCP/IP
• Linux kernel
• network protocol
• retro networking
• Netatalk
• Basilisk II

Sponsors

Jupiter Party Annual Membership, Managed Nebula

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Netatalk, Basilisk II, Apple, Inc.

Books & works: AppleTalk

Places: America/Los_Angeles

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