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From: pascal@altitude.CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: AppleTalk Zones in Chooser
Message-ID: <1990Apr13.002632.8865@altitude.CAM.ORG>
Date: 13 Apr 90 00:26:32 GMT
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pete@mck-csc.UUCP (Peter Gaston) writes:

>We're designing a large network, 44 offices, 3500 users, Appletalk as
>the LAN, some kind of backbone (Decnet, Sun, or bridged Novell as of now).

>When I pop up my chooser in this environment, 
>  ---> How many zones will I see? <---

>(Will appletalk phase 2 do anything for me?)

>Pete Gaston
>Cambridge Systems Center

Most routers have the option of "Hiding" certain zones from other users, this
could possibly reduce the number of zones visible to users.  It basically
depends on the level of inter-communication between zones that you desire.

Appletalk Phase 2 will let you have MORE zones and MORE USERS (especially
as far as Ethernet is concerned).  Keep in mind that the number of HOPS
in Appletalk is rather limited (15 I believe???).  A HOP means going through
a router (a barrier from one Atalk zone to another), this creates delays
and too many hops will degrade response incredibly (even with Ethernet) or
just plain kill your network.

From your description, looks like it's going to be an INTERESTING configuration
to say the least!

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