Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Routing between LocalTalk and EtherTalk
From: Bill Studenmund (skippy@macro.stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 16 1998 - 01:17:29 EDT
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> At 22:33 Uhr +0200 13.07.1998, Michael Zuelsdorff wrote:
>
> >1. Although I think, Phase I is correct for Localtalk, give it a try:
> > ltalk0 -seed -phase 2 -net 125-126 -addr 125.1 -zone "Local"
> I tried, won't work. I saw no printer anymore, even from tycho's view.
> This is 'cause LocalTalk only dows Phase 1.
Well, LocalTalk is the definition of a non-extended network, which was
called phase 1 when EtherTalk came out.
> >2. Try different zone names for the eth1 segments of leela and tycho
> My "red book" says, it's okay to have a zone name spread over multiple
> networks. But I'll give it a try. Be patient ;-)
Right. We have that setup here at Stanford. We have many zone names shared
between a LocalTalk segment and an EtherTalk segment. Usually it's where
the group started w/ LocalTalk, grew to Ether, and kept the printers on
LocalTalk. We also have a few zone names shared between buildings!
When you go to do a zone lookup, the broadcast routine looks for all the
network numbers which have that zone name on them, and broadcasts the
lookup (looking for laserWriters, etc) to them all.
> My "red book" says, having more than one seed router is okay as long as
> they are consistently configured.
Right. Some places use it as a backup. If things go down, you don't rely
on the "right" router coming back up. Whichever one comes up will set
things correctly.
Take care,
Bill
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