Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!jmg
From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Do FastPaths isolate broadcasts?
Message-ID: <716@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 08:37:46 GMT
References: <6139@well.UUCP> <849.581266019@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: jmg@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Lines: 17

In article <849.581266019@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU> Ravinder.Chandhok@GNOME.CS.CMU.EDU (Rob Chandhok) writes:
>                                                              In general,
>the "node address bid" is a local cable hardware broadcast, which is why
>there is a problem on Ethernet if you use something like a LanBridge and
>EtherTalk.

This tends to imply problems with a LanBridge on very fast back-to-back
packets. Since we have some suspicions about such cases, having many such
bridges around, as well as Ethertalk, could we have some more details on
this problem?

(maybe this ought to be in the lan newsgroup!
-- 
 _ _  o |             __                    |    jmg@cernvax.uucp
| | |   |     _      /  \  _   __  _   __  _|    jmg@cernvax.bitnet
| | | | |_)  /_)     |  __/_) | (___\ | (_/ |  J. M. Gerard, Div. DD, CERN,
| | |_|_| \_/\___    \__/ \___|   (_|_|   \_|_ 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland