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From: shoemake@Apple.COM (Mike Shoemaker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Public Folder/Broadcast over ethernet
Message-ID: <43773@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Aug 90 23:18:14 GMT
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bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt) writes:

>In article <5585@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercm20@castle.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) 
>writes:
>> ...  What is disconcerting is that
>> Public Folder and Broadcast don't appear to work when the networking is
>> switched to 'Ethernet'.  Does anyone know whether this is a fundamental
>> problem due to differences in the way LocalTalk and EtherTalk work, or
>> is there some feature of PF/B'cast that means they don't work over
>> EtherTalk (but should) or is there just some problem with my setup.

>No reports of problems with Public Folder 1.0 between Macs on Ethernet at 
>this site.  Users of Broadcast 1.2 at this site on Ethernet though
>have reported NOT being able to see other Broadcast users IFF these
>other Ethernet users are  on the same zone. Otherwise Broadcast works
>fine between Macs on different Ethernet zones.

>Ben Schmidt              Bell-Northern Research, Ltd.    Ph: (613) 763-3906
>Information Technology     P.O. Box 3511, Station C      FAX:(613) 763-3283
>                         Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7

I use both Public Folder and Broadcast on Ethernet with no problems.  Be
warned that if you use the Network control panel to switch networks, that
neither of these products notice that AppleTalk was turned off and back
on and that they should reregister their name.  The result is that they
appear to 'break.' If you reboot, they will register their name on the
newly selected network.

Technical aside:  Starting with the Phase 2 AppleTalk implementation on the
Mac, there is an AppleTalk transition queue.  Applications can be put on this
queue and they will get notified when the user switches networks or AppleTalk
gets turned off (like just  before the Portable goes to sleep.) See Tech
note #250.

Mike Shoemaker
Apple Computer, Inc.