🚀 go-pugleaf

Matt Brandt writes:
> I think the problems (other than the node limit) are overstated. Be reasonable.
> On a large internet you might have a hundred or so bridges. The broadcasts
> made by bridges to each other aren't really all that big a burdon (100
> packets every ten seconds?)

A "background" broadcast rate of 10 pps is not reasonable. Sustained
broadcast rates over 1 pps prevent diskless Sun workstations from
booting. Also, the 36K packets per hour use up an unreasonable amount
of resources on every station on the ethernet.

> AppleTalk is generally much better thought out than most other protocols. The
> only problem is that it was thought out as a small nework solution. Thats
> what you get when you try to solve a problem (large networks) with the wrong
> solution (AppleTalk). I think it does a pretty good job considering...

Well, I'll grant you that AppleTalk is certainly "much better thought out"
than EtherTalk (or than Sun's diskless boot protocol for that matter).

		Craig