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Re: Appletalk Bridge/Routing Inefficiency?

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From: Tom Evans
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1989 04:08
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In article <2224@aecom.YU.EDU>, glen@aecom.YU.EDU (Glen M. Marianko) writes:
> I saw packets sometimes go directly to the fastpath
> that directly bridged that segment, and - get this - other times it
> would go to the OTHER fastpath which would forward the packets to the
> bridging fastpath.

This has been explained in other postings, but...

Would putting the Ethernet and each of the two LocalTalk networks in
different ZONES fix it? Are the "I'm a bridge" broadcasts zone-limited?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] TURKEY!

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From: tom@wcc.oz (Tom Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Appletalk Bridge/Routing Inefficiency?
Summary: Is it fixable with Zones?
Message-ID: <307@wcc.oz>
Date: 4 Apr 89 04:08:18 GMT
References: <2224@aecom.YU.EDU>
Organization: Webster Computer, Melbourne, Australia
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