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From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England))
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: KSTAR and atalkad, atis.
Message-ID: <26514@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 8 Dec 88 17:49:14 GMT
References: <5566@saturn.ucsc.edu> <673@kinetics.UUCP> <5642@saturn.ucsc.edu>
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In article <5642@saturn.ucsc.edu> eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner) writes:
>
>The "FastPath Addendum" (P/N 4230394 Rev A) shipped with our new FP4s
>contains dangerous advice.  You recommend (page 20-21) that it is OK
>to choose any (unassigned) address for use on a localtalk net.  Today's
>unassigned address will be assigned to a site some day.  Suggestions
>like this plant black hole time bombs throughout the internet, set to
>go off long after anyone remembers this little hack.  I really don't
>think a responsible networking company would make this suggestion.
>

	Responsible companies with no valid network numbers to offer
use their own corporate network address in examples and suggestions.
That way only Kinetics suffers when all your advice comes back in
network routing updates.

	Kinetics should get a corporate Class C just for this purpose,
if you don't already have one.