morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (11/13/90)
Poking around in tech notes didn't reveal the answer to this, so perhaps The Net Knows: I had read someplace that one of the benefits of Phase II is that end systems (ie regular Macs) now, if they're attached to a net that has multiple AppleTalk routers, will keep track of which is the best router to use to get to each destination network, rather than just sending everything to the router that it heard an RTMP from last, as has been traditional. The question is, if one has installed EtherTalk using the 2.0.X drivers, and thereby got AppleTalk version 53 in one's system folder, does one get the above benefit even if continuing to use Phase I (by copying it from the Previous Version folder and selecting it, that is)? If nobody answers in a few days, I promise to break out the Sniffer and find out for myself, which I should probably do anyway, sigh . . . - RL "Bob" Morgan Networking Systems Stanford
MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) (11/14/90)
It is my understanding that versions of AppleTalk >=53 implement the best-router algorithm. I'm not sure whether this affects LocalTalk or not; other networks (Ether, Token, Arc) need to be Phase 2 for best-router to take effect. The Network Tuner INIT that comes with Liaison (now available from Farallon) implements best-router for Phase 1 nodes. ___________________________________________________________________ Stephan Somogyi Contentedness is for sheep MacUser