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In 1988 Apple had released MacTCP, a system that allowed the Mac to support TCP / IP on machines with suitable Ethernet hardware.

However, this left many universities with the problem of supporting IP on their many LocalTalk-equipped Macs.

Stanford University pioneered development of a system, MacIP, that allowed IP packets to be routed over LocalTalk networks with the support of a suitable " gateway " machine.

These were initially custom devices, but it was soon common to include such support in a LocalTalk-to-Ethernet bridge.

MacTCP would become a standard part of the Mac OS in 1994, by which time it also supported SNMP and PPP.