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- From: don@bodovipa.cis.brown.edu (Donald Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: RTMP question
- Message-ID: <don-131192134021@nocmac.cis.brown.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:51:44 GMT
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- Organization: Brown University
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- I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I haven't been able to find an
- answer in "Inside Appletalk" or anywhere else I've looked. If a FastPath
- (Gator box, whatever) happened to be busy doing file transfer for instance,
- could this affect the rate at which RTMP updates are sent, or is it
- completely timer driven and/or has priority to send its packets.
- The reason I ask is that I have a Novell 3.11 server on an ethertalk
- segment with about 30 FastPaths. The Novell box also happens to be a print
- server to our campus network, but is separated from it via IP gateways.
- What we are seeing is print jobs from sites on the IP net are timing out
- their connection to the print server and/or printer.
- My question comes up because if I sit at the console of the Novell print
- server and watch the RTMP table, the next hop route to any given IP site is
- doing a 'musical chair routine' among the 30 some FastPaths. Every 10
- seconds or some the next hop changes nodes on the ethertalk segment!
- If anybody has a clue on this one, I would really appreciate hearing it.
- Thanks.
-
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- Don Wright, Network Systems Specialist
- Brown University, Providence RI
- Internet: Donald_Wright@Brown.EDU
- Phone: (401) 863-7405
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