Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!amanda@intercon.uu.net From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: BroadCasting over Appletalk Message-ID: <1152@intercon.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 89 17:07:30 GMT References: <5911@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@intercon.UUCP Reply-To: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation Lines: 14 In article <5911@hubcap.clemson.edu>, mikeoro@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael K O'Rourke) writes: > First, I know that with a DDPWrite, if i set the nodeid to 255, it will > broadcast the message of the net. Will ATP do likewise if i set the nodeid > to 255? Wince. ATP is strictly a transaction protocol (hence the "T"), and only works between two nodes. If you think about it, the reasons are pretty simple: you'd have to maintain retry timers and so on for each node, and thus you'd need to know what nodes are out there in advance... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation