Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!bionet!ames!uhccux!yuan
From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: AppleTalk throughput
Keywords: LocalTalk, AppleTalk
Message-ID: <6451@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 90 18:25:26 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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Does AppleTalk offer any sort of packet collision detection/correction/
prevention?  We have a 22 Mac LocalTalk (using TOPS) network split into 
two zones (with a server for each zone) using the Liason software bridge.
We see a lot of spurious network activity even while nobody is actually
doing any work.  We also see a lot of mysterious network activity that
would disconnect every computer on a zone for up to three minutes at a
time.  Are we looking at problems with packet collisions or is this
something else?
-- 
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