Re: Zone Name Change Prototype

Tom Evans <tom@wcc.oz.au> Mon, 24 May 1993 09:43 UTC

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From: Tom Evans <tom@wcc.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Zone Name Change Prototype

	Date:	24-May-93
	To:	Apple-IP Mailing List
	From:	Tom Evans
	Re:	Re: Zone Name Change Prototype

Brad Parker <brad@fcr.com>:
> I'm curious, however, why the routers need to stop emitting rtmp
> packets.  Is there a technical reason besides causing all the
> end-nodes to timeout?

That isn't enough reason? :-)

It might also be there to support all the non-zone-name-change-capable
AppleTalk Routers on that network that you have to configure non-seed
and then power-cycle during the time that all the
zone-name-change-capable Routers are in "hold-off" and not emitting
packets.

Just a wild guess.

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