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- From: slin@cisco.com (Steven Lin)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: CLAIM: Seed Routers are not Nodes
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:31:27
- Organization: cisco Systems, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <SLIN.92Nov22173127@regal.cisco.com>
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- In-reply-to: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM's message of 21 Nov 92 01:17:30 GMT
-
- In article <2195@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner) writes:
-
- >>>winders@aux.support.apple.com (Scott Winders) writes:
-
- ... but Scott didn't write what follows. Darryl got the attribution wrong.
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- > Any router, once running, becomes a SEED router.
-
- Let's please not redefine Apple's terminology? From the "Inside
- AppleTalk #2" glossary:
-
- "seed router: an internet router in an AppleTalk network that
- has the network number range built into its port descriptor."
-
- By this definition, non-seed routers do not transform into seed routers
- once the net comes up, because their network number ranges do not
- become built-in.
-
- I suppose the proper use of the word "seed" has become a little
- muddled. Nevertheless, whoever made the statement, "Any router, once
- running, becomes a SEED router," had the right idea. Once a router
- comes up, it is allowed to provide information about the network to
- other routers that are starting up. More precisely, on extended
- networks it is allowed to answer a ZIP GetNetInfo Request with a
- GetNetInfo Reply. Hence, it, in essence, acts like a seed router,
- although it initially may not have been one.
-
- Steve
-