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From: tom@wcc.oz.au (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appletalk for VMS 2.1 (Is it *really phase II?)
Message-ID: <1583@wcc.oz.au>
Date: 4 Feb 91 06:12:46 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.173748.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu>
Organization: Webster Computer Corp, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Jan24.173748.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu>, peregrin@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes:
> 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...
> 
> 	Combing through the installation again, I can see no way of making my
> VAXstation Phase II inside.
> 
> To quote the manual, " The virtual Appletalk network is a non-extended network
> [I read this to mean Phase I]

Wrong!

> and is assigned a single network number and zone name."

This is perfectly legal. With AppleTalk Phase 2 (not "II") you have
Non-extended and Extended networks. LocalTalk is non-extended.
EtherTalk Phase 2 is Extended. So is TokenTalk. 

Dec's "Internal" network can be whatever they want it to be.
Non-extended is far more sensible (and easier to implement). Why
would you want more than 254 different router processes inside your
VAX (requiring a network range)? Likewise, having multiple Zones
INSIDE the VAX probably isn't necessary either.

If anyone ever succeeds in giving a LocalTalk network a network number
range and a zone list so it can be "100% Phase 2", I'd like to hear
about it :-).

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