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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
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Subject: Re: DEC LANworks is Phase 2 only: can Phase 1 & 2 co-exist?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 00:56:48 GMT
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HAMM@BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU (Greg Hamm) writes:

>We are contemplating getting DEC's LANworks product for use in our network,
>which consists of two LocalTalk networks bridged as one zone using two
>FastPath-4's and our Ethernet.  We have recently heard that LANworks (in fact,
>AppleTalk for VMS 3.0) supports only Phase 2 AppleTalk, so we'd have to
>move to Phase 2 to use it.  This would be fine for our part of the University, 
>but there are numerous other AppleTalk zones out there running Phase 1,
>which we currently access via our Ethernet's connection to the rest of
>the campus.

>With this background, then, two questions:

>	1. If we were to decide to move to Phase 2, but the rest of the
>	campus remains Phase 1, would we affect anyone else adversely,
>	apart from not being able to communicate with them?

>	2. Is there any way to route between Phase 2 and Phase 1 networks?

Yep, there are 2 ways that I know of:

1.  use Apple's internet router software (preferably on a dedicated mac)
2.  if you have a Kinetics Fastpath 4 with recent ROM revisions, Kstar v8.0
    will also allow a "transition bridge" to do phase 1 <--> 2 routing.

This works with LANworks :-)

			ian
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