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From: peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Appletalk for VMS 2.1 (Is it *really phase II?)
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.173748.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 22:37:48 GMT
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Anyone using Appletalk for VMS 2.1?  It is the Phase II version.
This is along the Phase I, Phase II discussion...
	I'm running ATKVMS 2.1 on my VAXstation with no problems.  It provides
print serving and file sharing (using AlisaShare,Print) on our Phase II
network.  My problem is that our network managers are complaining that their
network monitors show my VAXstation as containing a Phase I network.
	And I think they are right...

	Combing through the installation again, I can see no way of making my
VAXstation Phase II inside.  For those curious, ATKVMS 2.1 creates a bridge
between the VAXstation and the Apple internet.  In doing this it creates an
internal "virtual" network.  There is a setup file which specifies the zone
numbers on both sides of the bridge.  The strange thing is that I give the
virtual network a single number (as though it were a Phase I network), and I 
specify the outside zone with a Phase II extended network range.  This is 
what is  required by the installation (I've tried faking it out).  

To quote the manual, " The virtual Appletalk network is a non-extended network
[I read this to mean Phase I] and is assigned a single network number and zone
name."

Then Why is ATKVMS purported to be Phase II?  Has a later version come out that
solves this?  It seems to have one foot on each side of the road.
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James Peregrino
Programer/Analyst
Harvard Business School
jperegrino@hbsstg.harvard.edu
peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu