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- From: wes@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Wesley Craig)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Dual-homing on AppleTalk?
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:17:18 -0500
- Organization: University of Michigan
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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!)?
-
- As someone mentioned, AppleTalk is not really designed for multihoming
- without routing. In particular, if your network looks something like
-
- ------------------------- net 1
- | |
- [A] [B]
- | |
- ------------------------- net 2
-
- (that is, both node [A] and node [B] are connected to networks 1 and
- 2), and [A] routes and [B] doesn't, then if [A] goes down, there is no
- router and [B]'s idea of what the network numbers are, might need to
- change. Under phase 2, while the (now possibly bogus) network numbers
- can remain the same, the network range for both wires would be the
- same.
-
- wes
-