Re: Banyan services on non-serverless networks

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From: David Hampton
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 02:33

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> If you have a network connected to a cisco system with Vines routing
> enabled with PCs and a Banyan server on this network, but you do *not*
> flag the network serverless, can the PCs obtain services such as getting
> the time from other servers across the cisco, or are they restricted to
> obtaining these services from the local server (this is what we want)?

If you do not flag a network as "serverless" the router will not
helper any zero hop broadcasts frames.  This should effectively stop
things like the time service that function with zero hop broadcast
messages.

David

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