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- From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Dual-homing on AppleTalk?
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 16:35:13 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (USA)
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- In article <gf_DApu00WCoMJSnlE@andrew.cmu.edu> tjh+@CMU.EDU (Tom Holodnik) writes:
- >Do any machines support dual-homing on AppleTalk networks? That is,
- >would a NetWare server (for instance) support AppleTalk connections on
- >two networks (without routing!)?
-
- The old Novell 2.15 Macintosh VAPs supported this.
-
- The problem with it is that if the two network segments are routed
- together elsewhere, one server will show up twice in the Chooser.
-
- AppleTalk wasn't really built for multihoming. That's why NetWare for
- Macintosh 3.X routes when it's on multiple nets. (Well, it routes
- even when it is plugged into only one, and I wish it didn't, but that's
- a different issue.)
-
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