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From: John_Grossman@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (John Grossman)
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Subject: Re: Adding a new Phase 2 Ethernet zone name
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Date: 8 Apr 1991 19:38:46 GMT
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"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."

We've got a phase 2 net and our approach is to just have two seed routers. 
(Two rather than one for redundancy.) That way, when you add a zone, you 
just have to bring down two routers, rather than every router on the net. 
By the way, it does take a while after adding the new zone for all the 
routers to settle down with a complete list of zones.