Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: AppleTalk routing
From: Wes Brown (wes@prozac.eeap.cwru.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 29 1998 - 08:21:33 EST
> On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> Are ALL of these zones available on the same wire?? If you go to the
> Network (not OpenTransport) or the AppleTalk (OpenTransport) Control
> panel, do you see all of these zones?
>
> > Despite my inexperience, I'm pretty sure my ae1 netrange setting is why
> > I can't see the machines on the LAN... but I can't get anything at all
> > when I set it properly (25-50).
>
> 25-50 is NOT right! Each wire, like your internal net, should have its own
> netowrk number, or net range. Node numbers (net.node) are address like IP
> addresses (except they are randomly choosable and don't scale to world
> sizes). So your internal wire will have to have its own number, so the
> other computers can have a chance of talking to you.
>
> I'd suggest a netrange of just one number (say 51). You can get upwards of
> 250 nodes per net, so you don't really need 25 of them. :-)
Please note: The network range 25-50 is correct for this network. CWRUnet
Appletalk connections are to be coordinated through the Router Coordinator
and the Zone coordinator (both are zonemaster@po.cwru.edu)
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> As Stefan said, talk to your admins. For this to work, the other routers
> on campus have to know about your net number.
Wes
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