Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!rapatel From: rapatel@athos.rutgers.edu ( Rakesh Patel) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: KSTAR and atalkad, atis. Message-ID:Date: 4 Dec 88 00:43:39 GMT References: <5566@saturn.ucsc.edu> <673@kinetics.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 49 Aside from the security issues mentioned, I would like some other info. According to Inside Appletalk in the RTMP section: "For internets with a large number of networks, the entire routing table may not fit in a single datagram. In that case, the tuples are distributed over as many RTMP data packets as necessary." If my information is correct, KIP does not currently support this feature. Hopefully it will at some point. Does K* support this? I have recompiled KIP with a larger values for # of zones, zone name space, and number of routes. Until KIP and K* support this feature, the appletalk internetwork we have put together can't grow much. I really do not want to split into multiple appletalk internets, since we use the internetwork in order to distribute new network software to the various departments within our present appletalk internet. We would like to increase the types of services available and make them gloabally available to all the departments within our university. It seems to be a step backwards to have to spilt the internet. Part of the problem is that the KFPS-2s we run are tight on memory with the current KIP we are running (we are down from 22 to 12 buffers avaliable). Upgrading to KFPS-4s is going to be a real problem for us if K* does not have the ability to handle the security issues as well as the ability to handle large number of zones and routes. Does K* have hard limits on the # of zones, zone name space, and # of routes? If so, can I get some info on these limits? Does it handle the splitting of the routing table into multiple datagrams? We also use Hayes Interbridges and I am wondering what their limits actually are as well. Does anyone have any idea what they are? I have found it to be a real problem getting info on these issues from many vendors. I really wonder what limits there are on the various products available; especially in the local/remote Appletalk Bridges and the dialup appletalk bridges. Does anyone have further information in this area? Rakesh Patel.