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From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Expanding AppleTalk network
Keywords: AppleTalk
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Date: 1 Jun 88 16:23:02 GMT
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In article <3001@polyslo.UUCP> dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke) writes:
>    You can have as many Zones as necessary.  I've even heard of one school
>with 15 laserWriters all in their own Zone, when people what to use a 
>LaserWriter they tell chooser to look in the LaserWriter Zone.
>    Each Zone is a separate AppleTalk network with the 32node/1000 foot limit.
>
	Actually, each zone is a collection of Appletalk networks, not
necessarily adjacent ones.  Here at Dartmouth we have somewhere around
a hundred AT networks, but only 70 or so zones.  It takes the Chooser
a while to start up.

Jim Matthews
Software Development
Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu