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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Souped up Phase 1?
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Date: 20 Mar 90 12:08:23 GMT
Reply-To: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
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Is it possible to have the instantly useful bits of Phase 2
without changing over to using the new-style Ethernet packets
or haveing multiple zones etc?

The bit I'd like is the use of a routing cache so that Macs
stop this truly stupid business of sending to the most recently
noticed router; why Apple ever did this is a mystery to me, but
I'd like to stop having my Ethernetted Macs sending to my CAP
host by first sending the packet to a machine which runs
Liaison, which sends them to the Multigate, which wraps them in
IP packets and sends them to my UNIX host.

My impression is that I have to have all of Phase 2 or none of
it: is this correct for Ethernet machines (I know that
LocalTalk remains Phase 1 forever more)?
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