Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!CHPC.BRC.UTEXAS.EDU!xxss520 From: xxss520@CHPC.BRC.UTEXAS.EDU ("L. Stuart Vance") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Setting network # in EtherTalk devices Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 88 17:22:00 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 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 THEnet: THENIC::STUART BITNET: XXSS520@UTCHPC Internet: XXSS520@CHPC.BRC.UTEXAS.EDU Ma Bell: (512) 471-2416