Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!makmur From: makmur@athos.rutgers.edu (Hanz Makmur) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Zones, what are they for in phase2 ? Keywords: zones, appletalk Message-ID: Date: 27 Jun 91 22:10:04 GMT Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 Hello appletalker, I have a simple question to ask concerning appletalk zones. I hope this has not been asked before. In Inside Appletalk Book, zone is defined as: (p.7-10) "An arbitrary subset of nodes within an internet. A particular network can obtain nodes belonging to any number of zones ( although all nodes in a non extended network must belong to the same zone). A particular node belongs to only one zone. The union of all zone is the internet. A zone is identified by a string of no more than 32 characters. The concept of zones is provided to establish departmental or other user-understandable groupings of the entities of the internet. Zones are intelligible only to NBP and to the related Zones Information Protocol (ZIP)." Let say I have 30 macs on Ethertalk and 3 Fastpath and 30 macs on localtalk. If I were to group these Macs, will it be advantages for me to: 1. group the Macs to 1 zones and 4 networks ? and why so ? 2. group the Macs to 4 zones and 4 networks - 1 ethertalk zone (30 macs) , 3 localtalk zones (10 macs each) and group the macs to the specific net they belong to. ? and why so ? 3. group the macs to the specific groups/department they belong to and create 20 zones and 4 networks ? and why so ? Hanz Makmur Rutgers University