Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!apple.com!desnoyer
From: desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: naive question
Message-ID: <4063@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 89 18:08:57 GMT
Sender: usenet@Apple.COM
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
Lines: 20
References:<Added.8Yyzh_y00Ui3I=C09n@andrew.cmu.edu> <4182@ncar.ucar.edu>        <14069@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <RICH.89Sep6140332@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us>

In article <RICH.89Sep6140332@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us> 
rich@sendai.sendai.ann-arbor.mi.us (K. Richard Magill) writes:
> 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.
> 
Come on now. The original discussion was over the dynamic assignment of 
local network addresses in the LocalTalk MAC layer. Ethernet is completely 
irrelevant to the question at hand, as it uses a different means of 
assigning addresses. (i.e. pre-assigned addresses.)

A valid question about Ethernet would be whether the address resolution 
protocol is safe against the assignment of duplicate AppleTalk node 
numbers. I don't know the answer to this one.

                                      Peter Desnoyers
                                      Apple ATG
                                      (408) 974-4469