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From: Gary White
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Transition to Phase 2 in big network
Summary: Suggestions for P1->P2 transition ?
Keywords: AppleTalk, cisco
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.145038.9314@Arco.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 91 14:50:38 GMT
Sender: news@Arco.COM
Organization: ARCO Oil and Gas Co.
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Hi-
We have a big AppleTalk network involving about 50 zones, with T1
links to remote district offices using cisco routers to break up
Ethernet, then with FastPaths and GatorBoxes and a lot of Macs 
directly on Ethernet.  Currently we are running AppleTalk Phase 1,
but want to switch to Phase 2 very soon.  

We have an established company-wide network numbering and naming scheme which
it would be nice to retain;  in fact our preference is
to have the same net numbers after switching.

Does anybody have suggestions on how to make the transition?  It this
best done in a crazy weekend, or are there ways we can do it zone by
zone or maybe an Ethernet leg at a time?

Experience with ciscos in a network would be particularly appreciated.

(Currently our ciscos route AppleTalk and TCP/IP while bridging every-
thing else, such as DECnet, XNS, etc.

Thanks!
-Gary White
 Exploration and Research Center