[comp.protocols.appletalk] Migration to AppleTalk Phase 2

jmg@cernvax.cern.ch (mike gerard) (02/28/91)

We are currently running on our Ethernet both Phase 1 and a non-extended
Phase 2 AppleTalk, plus several parallel transition bridges.

If we start to use a real extended Phase 2 Ethertalk then the transition
bridge won't work, and I see no bridging possibility yet.

Aha, I thought. Let us run several non-extended Phase 2 networks
(divided into areas) and run transition bridges for each non-extended
network to make it able to see and be seen by the original Phase 1
network. I thought that then the different non-extended networks could
then see each other, albeit across two transition bridges.

Great idea! Now, why does it not work? I cannot seem to get a second
different transition bridge (Apple or Kinetics) to work once one is
working for one particular Phase 2 network!

Ideas?