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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 22:37:14 -0500
- Organization: University of Michigan
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- Message-ID: <1gjjtaINN56p@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- References: <2334@shaman.wv.tek.com>
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- In article <2334@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
- >But it works if the multi-homed device is intelligent and can keep its
- >multiple ports straight. The only conceptual problem is that you have
- >to advertise different NBP entity names out your different ports. This
- >can confuse a Mac user who sees the same device appear multiple times
- >in Chooser.
-
- How much sense does a non-routing multi-homed node make in an
- environment without any other routers? So what happens when the only
- router goes down? It is easy (one could say trivial) to implement a
- non-routing multi-homed AppleTalk node (NRMHATN?), as long as you
- assume there is another routing node around. The intelligence (magic?)
- has to come when the net is in transition. I have given this some
- thought.
-
- wes
-