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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: broadcast storm
Summary: It's the RTMP disease
Message-ID: <28266@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 89 23:49:35 GMT
References: <508@nikhefk.UUCP>
Reply-To: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
Followup-To: comp.protocols.appletalk
Organization: Boston U. Information Technology
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In article <508@nikhefk.UUCP> ronbo@nikhefk.UUCP (Ronald Boontje) writes:
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>We have noticed every ten seconds broadcast messages are sent 
>between our two FastPath 4 gateways running K-Star. 

	The AppleTalk Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP) runs
every ten seconds between Appletalk bridges.  It is broadcast.
	You say the type code belongs to Kinetics?  Perhaps they
modified the RTMP a little for K Star?

	AppleTalk is chatty and rather nervous.  Perhaps you can
isolate the AppleTalk stuff behind a bridge.