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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 AT Phase 1 driver Summary (& Plea)
Message-ID: <49737@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 91 01:00:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.202509.11608@ni.umd.edu> <12219@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Feb23.151637.10390@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Feb23.151637.10390@bwdls61.bnr.ca> bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt (BNR)) writes:

>Using your comments of if at first you don't succeed, try again:   Is it 
>really impossible to generate AppleTalk Phase 1 protocols from an A/UX 2.0 
>machine?   Can the A/UX 1.1 AppleTalk Phase 1 drivers be hacked?  
>
>Like a lot of big sites, we've not yet ATP2 converted our 250 AT nets.  
>(Our particular bottleneck is our dependence on cisco routers, which only 
>recently started supporting ATP2, 
>(and yup you guessed it, their first go at it doesn't work well enough to 
>make it worthwhile upgrading 60+ routers yet)).  

Just as side information, System 7 supports ATalk Phase 2 as default -
but there will be a network INIT that supports ATalk Phase 1 under
System 7. This is an interim solution, and the INIT will be phased
out during a later stage - because as other network protocol standards
there's a time when backwards compability is more of a hinder than
a feature.

Kent
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