steve@cpdaux.UUCP (Steve Lemke) (11/13/89)
In article <1989Nov7.161042.5001@aucs.uucp> paul@aucs.UUCP (Paul Steele) writes: }We are having problems on our Appletalk PhoneNET network. When our }network grew to 60+ nodes, we decided to split the network and put }half the nodes on one fastpath and the other half on another fastpath }while putting the SE/30 file server on ethernet... } }Does anyone out there have a set up similar to this. Note that although }we split the network we still only use 1 zone. Any insights would be }appreciated. Why did you call everything the same zone? There should be a logical division - such as if you have two groups of people, you should have a "group A" zone and a "group B" zone. The Ethernet zone should be called "backbone" or "ether" or something like that. With everything in the same zone, traffic in one PhoneNet net goes through to ether and into the other PhoneNet zone. You're on the right track by putting in the Ethernet, but now give the zones different names! Also, if you have two or more printers, you should have a printer in each zone, so that local printer traffic doesn't have to go flood another zone. As for your problem, I suspect that maybe there is some periodic network task that may be going on in one PhoneNet network that is flooding the whole system since it's all the same zone. Perhaps giving each net a different zone name will solve this... -- ----- Steve Lemke ------------------- "MS-DOS (OS/2, etc.) - just say no!" ----- Internet: cpdaux!steve@apple.com GEnie: LEMKE ----- Or try: apple!cpdaux!steve CompuServe: 73627,570 ----- Quote: "What'd I go to college for?" "You had fun, didn't you?"