Re: Dual-homing on AppleTalk?

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From: Wesley Craig
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:37

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In article <2334@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
>But it works if the multi-homed device is intelligent and can keep its
>multiple ports straight.  The only conceptual problem is that you have
>to advertise different NBP entity names out your different ports.  This
>can confuse a Mac user who sees the same device appear multiple times
>in Chooser.

How much sense does a non-routing multi-homed node make in an
environment without any other routers?  So what happens when the only
router goes down?  It is easy (one could say trivial) to implement a
non-routing multi-homed AppleTalk node (NRMHATN?), as long as you
assume there is another routing node around.  The intelligence (magic?)
has to come when the net is in transition.  I have given this some
thought.

wes

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From: wes@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Wesley Craig)
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Subject: Re: Dual-homing on AppleTalk?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:37:14 -0500
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