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- From: David Hampton <hampton@cisco.com>
- Subject: Re: Banyan services on non-serverless networks
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Sep 92 17:59:49 +0900."
- Message-ID: <9209040233.AA01178@wolf.cisco.com>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu
- Date: 03 Sep 92 19:33:10 PDT
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- > If you have a network connected to a cisco system with Vines routing
- > enabled with PCs and a Banyan server on this network, but you do *not*
- > flag the network serverless, can the PCs obtain services such as getting
- > the time from other servers across the cisco, or are they restricted to
- > obtaining these services from the local server (this is what we want)?
-
- If you do not flag a network as "serverless" the router will not
- helper any zero hop broadcasts frames. This should effectively stop
- things like the time service that function with zero hop broadcast
- messages.
-
- David
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