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- From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: How to set up multiple zones on single physical network?
- Message-ID: <D2150035.9qt3nq@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 18:27:03 GMT
- Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
- Organization: Peirce Software
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- In article <eV2ooB1w164w@uuisis.isis.org> (comp.protocols.appletalk), rrwood@uuisis.isis.org (Roy Wood) writes:
- > Has anyone ever tried setting up multiple zones on a single physical
- > network? I know this is possible, but I don't know how to go about doing
- > so, and I'd like to hear from someone who is less ignorant than I am.
- >
- > I know the idea sounds dumb, but I'm testing some software that I'm
- > developing, and I *have* to make sure it'll work with multi-zone networks,
- > and I'd like to test it out on the network here.
-
- What I do when I'm testing multi-zone code is to load up the Apple
- Router software in a number of Macs and plug LocalTalk connectors
- into both serial ports on these machines. This way I get a number
- of little localTalk networks to work with.
-
- Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
- +---------+ +-------+ +---------+
- | | | | | | This gives three zones
- Mac A Mac B Mac C Mac D with four Macs.
- (router) (router)
-
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