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From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Adding a new Phase 2 Ethernet zone name
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.105940.175@gacvx2.gac.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 10:59:40 -0600
References: <313@farcomp.UUCP>
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota
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In article <313@farcomp.UUCP>, gary@farcomp.UUCP (Gary Morrell) writes:
> Ok here's a question.  Say I've got 50 routers on a phase II only
> backbone.  They are a mix of Fastpaths, Gatorboxes and Ciscos.  I have
> a cable-range of 20-23, and four zone names defined.  I need to add
> another ethernet phase II zone name.  Do I need to reconfigure each 
> and every router?  Or can I just reconfigure one of the routers and 
> have the rest "learn" i.e. seed from the newly reconfigured?  I don't 
> want to change the home zone, only add a new phase II ethernet zone 
> name.  Have any of you done this?  I can't believe that I'd have to 
> take down the whole net just to add a new zone.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Gnow Reason

When I set up phase 2 on the network at Gustavus, I configured one router as a
seed router.  The other routers got the phase 2 zone names from the seed
router.  I did not tell the other routers about any of the zones on the
Ethertalk side they learned it from seed router.  The only difference I can see
between a seed router and the "other" routers is the seed router has a list of
zones names, they "others" don't so they go looking for them.  If you have a
Kinetics or Shiva FastPath, or a GatorBox manual, they all go into how seed
routers work in great detail, although I didn't quite realize why the first
time I read them.

-- 
Dan Boehlke                    Internet:  dan@gac.edu
Campus Network Manager         BITNET:    dan@gacvax1.bitnet
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, MN 56082 USA        Phone:     (507)933-7596