Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kth!draken!ragge From: ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Setting network # in EtherTalk devices Message-ID: <580@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 29 Sep 88 23:11:08 GMT References: Reply-To: ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 20 In article xxss520@CHPC.BRC.UTEXAS.EDU ("L. Stuart Vance") writes: >The Mac associates itself with (potentially) a different network each >time you fire up the chooser (it picks the network number associated with >the last AppleTalk packet that it saw on it's Ethernet interface). No, no, no! This is NOT the way of doing it! Never run more than one EtherTalk on one ethernet! If you have to, get bridges that can filter specified protocols, and turn of EtherTalk (2 types!). Then get some kind of EtherTalk router (A MacII with several ethernet interfaces and some software) to connect the logical ethertalk networks. The mac does not get it's network from any passing packets, but from RTMP-packets, and normally it asks for it. >Thanks! >L. Stuart Vance >Network Systems Specialist hmm... >Texas Higher Education Network Information Center >UT System Office of Telecommunication Services