Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!advantg!brad
From: brad@advantg
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: A LaserWriter LocalTalk Zone
Message-ID: <1990Oct3.164931.5870@advantg>
Date: 3 Oct 90 16:49:31 GMT
References: <5868559@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
Organization: Advantge Computers Ltd.
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In article <5868559@AppleLink.Apple.COM> CLAUSS1@applelink.apple.com (Clauss, Chris) writes:
>    They said that the Macintoshes send periodic packets to routers and that
>LaserWriters do not send these packets.  If it does not receive traffic from a
>LocalTalk segment after a certain amount of time, a FastPath will no longer
>route traffic to that network.  The LocalTalk segment would soon disappear!
>The Shiva tech support folks reportedly said that we would need to put at least
>one Macintosh onto the LocalTalk for this scheme to work.

Why not try using a product like EtherPrint from Dayna. This product
puts the LaserWriter on the ethernet segment. We use it in house,
and it works great. You would no longer have a need for the LocalTalk
zone in your network. One problem I can see is you need one
EtherPrint for each LaserWriter, and I do not know how much they
cost.

Brad Kollmyer
advantg!brad@wimsey.bc.ca