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- From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: CLAIM: Seed Routers are not Nodes
- Message-ID: <2204@shaman.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:31:40 GMT
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- "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."
-
- Yes, a router can answer GetNetInfos once it's gotten its information
- together. But saying that this makes it a "like a seed router" is like
- saying this makes it "like a red router" because the routers in red
- cases happen to work this way.
-
- Apple did a rotten job inventing terminology for AppleTalk. Reading
- through the glossary makes you wince -- "network" means "network
- segment", "internet" means "network", and the overloading of "CTS" and
- "RTS" makes it awfully hard on somebody who looks at the Z8530 and sees
- CTS and RTS pinouts. But we've got to live with all this.
-
- -=- Andrew Klossner (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
- (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
-