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- From: chris@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Gressley)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: CLAIM: Seed Routers are not Nodes
- Keywords: routers, nodes
- Message-ID: <chris.722141659@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 02:54:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ph-meter.chris.722141659
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- The manufacturer of our routers has made a very strange claim
- concerning their implementation of AppleTalk. I think I can cite the
- passages in Inside AppleTalk which show that they are just implementing
- this incorrectly, but I could use a direct quote from a Tech Note or
- Inside AppleTalk, or an answer from an Apple person, which would show
- definitively that they are wrong, or alternatively that I am wrong and
- the router folks are correct.
-
- The folks who make our routers make the following two claims:
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- 1. A "router" is not a "node". Nodes and routers are distinct sorts of
- things.
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- 2. Since a router is not a node, if a router is a seed router, it need
- not dynamically acquire a node ID but can instead have one statically
- assigned, since a seed router has statically assigned port descriptor
- information.
-
- I am trying to configure the backbone network that the routers share
- with the campus backbone so that all of the routers are seed routers.
- Because of this, two of my routers are trying to use identical node
- IDs, which all in all is a very bad thing.
-
- Am I totally confused, or is it true that:
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- (a) A router is in fact a node.
-
- (b) Because a router is a node, it should follow the rules for node
- number acquisition.
-
- Any authoritative source on this would be greatly appreciated.
-
- chris
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