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From: Wesley Craig
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56

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In developing and debugging netatalk 1.3 here at Michigan, we've
noticed a couple of strange things about proteon's appletalk router.
Since we no longer have a proteon here in our building and our campus
is switching to ciscos, I'm passing this information on to someone who
might continue to find it useful.

    Proteon drops packet when it has no AARP entry for a destination.
    This has the effect of dropping the first packet for a destination
    while waiting for the AARP request to complete.

    Proteon seems to treat AARP Probes like AARP Responses. This has
    the effect of temporarily redirecting packets to the wrong
    address.  Can be serious if the Probed address belongs to a
    router.  Not sure how it rights itself, but this effect seem to
    occur only during Probing, not after an unused address has been
    selected.

wes

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From: wes@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Wesley Craig)
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Subject: proteon appletalk routers
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:56:04 -0500
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