Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!kre From: kre@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Adding a new Phase 2 Ethernet zone name Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 91 17:40:11 GMT References: <313@farcomp.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 27 gary@farcomp.UUCP (Gary Morrell) writes: >I can't believe that I'd have to >take down the whole net just to add a new zone. Believe it - there's currently no other way. You need to configure the zone into every one of your gateways that has the zone list configured (the seed gateways), reboot those, and then reboot all of the others (which must all have been down together - really down). If everything is a seed gateway, you have it easier, you can reconfig the gateways, one by one - but don't expect any network sanity until they have all been reconfigured. If you have any gateways that aren't connected to this phase 2 net (ie: any connected through some other router which is connected) then you have an even bigger problem - you can either reboot everything or you have to leave your phase 2 net down (which basically means for this purpose, any gateway on it which connects to a net on which there is any other gateway) for long enough that all knowledge of the net you're changing to have timed out - 10 minutes is recommended, whether thats really long enough or not really depends on how complex your net topology is. Once the net has time out, the gateway can be restarted, and the other gateways (not on the net being changed) will learn the changed zone names dynamically. kre