Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!matthews From: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Expanding AppleTalk network Keywords: AppleTalk Message-ID: <8738@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 1 Jun 88 16:23:02 GMT References: <422@kddlab.kddlabs.JUNET> <3001@polyslo.UUCP> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: matthews@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 14 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