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Scanner,
	When the Mac boots, it attempts to open the ATP drivers.  If it's
connected to an AppleTalk network, it will pick a node number and use a LAP
control packet to determine whether it is unique (other nodes will respond
if it is not).  It then stores that node ID in parameter RAM, and uses it
as the first node ID to try the next time the drivers open.  This way, node
IDs tend to remain stable.  The only way it should change while it's still
on is if the ATP drivers are closed and then reopened, and in the mean time
someone else (presumable a device brand new to this network) has been connected
and claimed that ID -- unlikely situation.  Of course, if you have a device
that's misbehaving by not reusing it's old node ID, or perhaps not obeying
the LAP control protocol, then you could have problems.


                                                Richard Silverman

arpa:	rsilverman@eagle.wesleyan.edu           Wesleyan University
bitnet:	rsilverman@wesleyan                     Middletown, CT
CIS:	[72727,453]                             06457