Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!oxtrap!sendai!rich From: rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: naive question Message-ID: Date: 6 Sep 89 18:03:32 GMT References: <4182@ncar.ucar.edu> <14069@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <14090@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> Sender: rich@sendai.UUCP Reply-To: rich@sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us Organization: Digital Works, Ltd. - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 25 In-reply-to: dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU's message of 31 Aug 89 17:20:39 GMT In article <14090@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) writes: Local talk has a limit of 32 nodes [...] ethertalk doesn't. hmm, see above about this many nodes, but you're also going to get a lot of collisions which will make the macs backoff and retry, by that time someone has already gotten node #1 and probably will respond. [...] Not over ether. Talking with some friends they say that they turn appletalk off to get the best MIDI performance. I'm sure this situation could come up, but again I think you're hitting extremes that won't be met all that often. [...] Presume for the purposes of my argument that we have an ideal LAP. ie, node numbers are not limitted and that the network bandwidth verges on infinite. My point here is that appletalk appears to be full of holes and doesn't even specify ways to recover from these blunders. -- rich.