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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (mike gerard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Cisco does AppleTalk Phase 2
Message-ID: <3008@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 90 07:14:07 GMT
References: <4398980@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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In article <4398980@AppleLink.Apple.COM> CLAUSS1@applelink.apple.com (Clauss, Chris) writes:
>    NEW FEATURES: All Cisco routers will incorporate support for AppleTalk
>Phase 2 network-transport protocols running concurrently with the original
>AppleTalk and other supported protocols at no extra charge.  AppleTalk Phase 2
>routing will be supported over Cisco's Ethernet, synchronous serial, Fiber
>Distributed Data Interface, token-ring and X.25 interfaces.

Now would anyone like to tell me how the Phase 2 packets will go across
an FDDI network? It is well known that currently Apple Phase 2 does NOT
work over many standard Mac-level bridges (but it should if one uses
encapsulating techniques). Since ultimately someone is going to want to
have Apple Phase 2 protocols recognised by equipment sitting directly
on FDDI this becomes an interesting point.
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