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- From: woody@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: NBP type field used for routers?
- Keywords: NBP, router
- Message-ID: <17v3c1INNi59@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 06:42:09 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.002712.27251@athena.mit.edu>
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- fredette@athena.mit.edu (Matthew H Fredette)
- > I'm working on the software for an AppleTalk router
- > I was wondering what NBP type a router is supposed to be.
- > I don't have any kind of packet sniffing software yet
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- You don't need a packet analyzer to figure that out. Just use
- CheckNet or Inter-Poll. You'll see that every router registers a
- different NBP type, usually its model name. For instance, my FastPath
- is NBP type "FastPath" while my GatorBox is NBP type "GatorBox"
- (surprise, surprise).
-
- You'll certainly need some kind of peek program to get your router
- working, though.
-
- And start thinking now about whether you want your router to be hard
- seed, soft seed, or come up as an end node, before you get lynched for
- implementing discrepancy-handling wrong. <grin>
-
- -Bill Woodcock
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