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From: xxss520@CHPC.BRC.UTEXAS.EDU ("L. Stuart Vance")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Setting network # in EtherTalk devices
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Date: 27 Sep 88 17:22:00 GMT
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We have a very large, diverse (technologically, geographically and
politically) campus Ethernet (broadband) network, and are having to run
multiple AppleTalk network numbers on it so that various departments
don't have to see each other's machines and printers (and, more importantly
to them that they can't access each other's equipment).  Only problem is
when you throw a Mac in with an Ethernet board with EtherTalk enabled.
The Mac associates itself with (potentially) a different network each
time you fire up the chooser (it picks the network number associated with
the last AppleTalk packet that it saw on it's Ethernet interface).

Question: does anyone (hello, Apple, 3Com and Kinetics) know of a way
to hardwire an AppleTalk network number into a Mac so that it is always
associated with a certain network?

Thanks!
L. Stuart Vance
Network Systems Specialist
Texas Higher Education Network Information Center
UT System Office of Telecommunication Services

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