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From: hayes@Apple.COM (Jim Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Hacking Chooser limits
Keywords: printer chooser
Message-ID: <51368@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 02:20:04 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.190651@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov> <1429@radius.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., ECO Networking Group
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lemke@radius.com (Steve Lemke) writes in article <1429@radius.com>:
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>19 printers in the same zone?  Isn't this a sign that it's time to make a new
>zone??  Your network traffic going to all of those printers must be incredible!
>I would think that the easiest way to deal with this would be to break that
>zone up into (at LEAST) two separate zones...

Not necessarily.  You can split things into multiple networks with the
same zone name and avoid the traffic bottlenecks.  It really depends on
your topology.  But that's neither here nor there...

The Chooser has been changed extensively for System 7 and now
dynamically allocates space for names (as well as sorting them.)  This
is a win for zones with many printers and AppleShare servers.


-- 
Jim Hayes, Network Manager (I manage the hardware, not the network group)
Engineering Network Services, Apple Computer Inc.

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