On Jan 26, 2005, at 15:56, Clark Martin wrote:So, hmm... what exactly does that "AppleTalk" checkbox in the OS X Network preference panel do anyway? Is that to turn on AppleTalk over the selected network interface?
Yes. In OS X you can have IP active over many interfaces simultaneously. You can only have AppleTalk active on a single interface.
Is there a technical reason that you can only have AppleTalk active on a single interface? I want AppleTalk active on both my Ethernet and my wireless interfaces, because sometimes I'm on a wireless LAN, while other times I'm on a wired LAN.
I'm pretty sure there is a technical reason but I don't know what it is for certain. My best guess is that AT simply doesn't have the smarts built in to deal with more complicated configurations like two connections to the LAN. AppleTalk was designed as a fairly simple network protocol with limited expansion capabilities. Most local IP LANs are equally simple (but multiple interfaces are an example of increasing complexity) as AppleTalk.
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