Kinetics Internet Protocol
Encyclopedia
Kinetics Internet Protocol (KIP) is a network protocol for encapsulation and routing
of AppleTalk
data packets over IP
. It also controls the routing table
s.
It is defined in RFC 1742.
Apple Computer
adopted the usage of KIP and refer to it as MacIP
.
Routing
Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic. Routing is performed for many kinds of networks, including the telephone network , electronic data networks , and transportation networks...
of AppleTalk
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple Inc. for networking computers. It was included in the original Macintosh released in 1984, but is now unsupported as of the release of Mac OS X v10.6 in 2009 in favor of TCP/IP networking...
data packets over IP
Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
. It also controls the routing table
Routing table
In computer networking a routing table, or Routing Information Base , is a data table stored in a router or a networked computer that lists the routes to particular network destinations, and in some cases, metrics associated with those routes. The routing table contains information about the...
s.
It is defined in RFC 1742.
Apple Computer
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
adopted the usage of KIP and refer to it as MacIP
MacIP
MacIP refers to encapsulating Internet Protocol 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...
.
Literature
- Sidhu, Andrews, Oppenheimer: Inside AppleTalk, 2nd, Addison-Wesley, 1999
- Apple Computer Inc.: Inside Macintosh: Networking, 2nd, Addison-Wesley, 1994, Chapter 1 - Introduction to AppleTalk (online version)