From: Manny Gonzalez (gonzalu@xxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 23:56:12 GMT-3
If you have a large APPLETALK ZONE and you want to ensure the Cisco
Router is the seed router, you must make sure it is the first device on
the segment.
Apple printers have been known to be very stubborn at letting go of
their seed router status when a Cisco router wants to get in there. This
can cause some problems as it has in our network many many times.
Also, you can put as many appletalk zone names into an interface config
as you like (there may be a limit, but I have yet to reach it)
MG
>
> Question for the appletalk guru:
>
> I'm working with a friend in a network that includes both appletalk and ip,
> and I'm very confuse. If a router with an appletalk interface is assigned
> an address range 10-20, and five different zone names, how will the 5 zones
> map to the 10 networks spefified within the range? If an appletalk node
> on the network where this router is located boots, how does it pick which
> network and zone it belongs to? Can one manually configure the zone and
> network for the appletalk host?
>
> If the router is not configured for appletalk, will appletalk nodes on this
> segment pick their own network, node number and zones from a range of
> default values? If two nodes on the same segment pick different network
> and zones, will they be able to talk?
>
> I researched CCO, but the info provided does not answer these questions,
> most are aimed at explaining the difference between phase 1 and phase 2 .
>
> THank a million.
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