Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU!morgan From: morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: AppleTalk in large diverse networks Message-ID: Date: 17 May 88 04:24:33 GMT References: <88.05.14.1202.740@pescadero.stanford.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 > Any possibility of getting Apple to specify an Ethernet *multicast* > address, rather than the broadcast address, for Appletalk broadcasts? > That would at least allow non-Appletalk systems to protect themselves > from the interrupt load of all those gratuitous broadcasts. We suggested this recently to some AppleTalk people at Apple. They admitted that RTMP broadcasts are a problem on a large net (though they didn't think the address-acquisition broadcasts are), and said they would think about it. As I reported before, *my* impression is that so many things in the AppleTalk stack need changing to work well in a large internet environment that they'll probably only come via a Major New Version. Are you ready for AppleTalk II? Or maybe OSITalk? - RL "Bob"