Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Routing question
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 15 1997 - 18:17:01 EDT
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Andrew Solmssen wrote:
> Questions:
>
> Is a phase 2 range of X-X valid? Or must it be X-Y where
> Y is greater than but not equal to X?
It is very valid. Almost all of the phase 2 nets at Stanford are X-X.
> Why would something like this only show up with the new 3c59x.c file -
> that seems lower level then netatalk would be fooling with...
I'd bet it's something to do with the way the multicast addressing gets
set up.
> I guess I could just leave things with the 10000-10001 net range, but this
> affects my sense of network esthetics negatively. I guess I'm having a
> conceptual problem with phase 2 - does there need to be a one-to-one
> mapping between net numbers and zone names? If not, is there any
> disadvantage or advantage to a net that has a couple of numbers included?
> What is the advantage in general of zones that encompass more than one net
> number?
I doubt covering 2 nets would matter much, though you're right; it lacks
athetics.
The advantage to a zone covering multiple nets is that computer users can
logically assosciate themselves with their peers. We have computers on
ether and LocalTalk (via a FastPath), and it's nice for everyone to be in
the same zone.
> On a more general note - I know that on a net with multiple zones I use
> the Network or Appletalk control panel to assign the Mac to a zone, but
> as an network manager, how do I enforce that selection? What's to keep my
> users from saying I don't want to be in the Work zone, I'd rather be in
> the Fun zone, and changing this themselves? Can I assign Macs to zones
> remotely?
You might be able to do something w/ AppleEvents, but does it matter?
These users can only choose from zones you've made available. They can't
add zones. Since they can get at servers in all zones, the only
differances from being in another zone are that 1) other computers have to
know where to find them (say for personal file sharing), and 2) they may
have to manually switch zones more or less frequently in the chooser to
find resources.
Take care,
Bill
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