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- From: lkimes@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: multiple phase2 zones on a network
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 16:12:38 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1992Nov10.212317.22514@novell.com>, cranch@novell.com (Christopher Ranch) writes:
- |> In article <1dp2m2INNhna@alshain.usc.edu> lkimes@alshain.usc.edu (Lance 'Moof' Kimes) writes:
- |>
- |> [excellent discussion of AppleTalk deleted...]
- |>
- |> >A special note to the guys using novell:
- |> >I once setup all the routers with a new zone list and then brought the network
- |> >back up. Well, it should have worked except that it didn't occur to me that
- |> >the novell 3.11 servers would seed the network with the old zone list they had.
- |> >If you have novell 3.11 servers, you must coordinate them with any other
- |> >routers you have in order to change the network zone list.
- |>
- |> This symptom is not just particular to Novell routers, but to the
- |> design of AppleTalk itself. EVERY NetWare server is also a full
- |> router. Once a router (any router) has been seeded by _any_ means,
- |> to too becomes a seed router. So the morale of the story is that
- |> when you're reconfiguring a network range's zones list, you must
- |> shut down _every_ router connected to the cable with the network
- |> range, not just Novell routers.
- |>
- |> Chris
- |> ---
- |> Chris Ranch
- |> Internetworking Products Division
- |> Novell, Inc. San Jose, CA
- |> (408)473-8667 cranch@novell.com
- |> I may work for Novell, but I don't speak for them...
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- I don't mean to be picky, but I stated this when I said :
- "you must coordinate them with any other routers you have"
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- Lance Kimes
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