[comp.protocols.appletalk] dynamic node assignment in ELAP & TLAP?

sob@isr.harvard.edu (Scott Bradner) (06/10/91)

Inside AppleTalk (second edition) page 4-8 has a description of node
address acquisition on extended networks.  The node address used last time
is used as a "hint".

	"the node instructs the data link to obtain its provisional node
address by trying this hint first.  If this hint is in use, the data link
should then try all node IDs with the same network number as the hint."

	I don't see how the "hint" is checked.  In the description of LLAP
there is the "lapENQ" packet that is used to do the testing but how is it
done with ELAP & TLAP?

	Another question, is there a FLAP (AppleTalk over FDDI)? Can anyone
point to some documentation on how AppleTalk is run over an FDDI backbone?

Thanks

Scott Bradner
sob@harvard.edu