Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!mundamutti.cs.mu.OZ.AU!kre From: kre@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: CAP and two zones (dual CAPS)? Message-ID: Date: 6 Apr 91 21:06:03 GMT References: <770@rocksanne.WRC.XEROX.COM> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 21 rapatel@khnphwzhn.njin.net ( Rakesh Patel) writes: >Each appletalk network can only have 1 >Zone name, so those machines would need to have different Ethertalk >network numbers under phase 2 in order to assign unique zones to each. The basic answer to the original question is correct, but this part isn't - under phase 2, an "extended" appletalk network can have any number of network numbers (well, there's a limit that is a bit smaller than the 16 bit range would imply, but 60000 net numbers is possible), but its still really considered to be one network - the extra network numbers are used to give more bits to the node number. On such a network (regardless of the number of network numbers assigned) any number of zones (up to 255 I think) can be assigned, so you could easily have a network with a single net number and 20 zones. There is no direct relationship between net numbers and zone names (even on a net with two numbers and two zones, clients in different zones may have the same net number, and vice versa). kre