On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 8:09 PM -0800 12/05/2005, Clark Martin wrote:
At 7:39 PM -0500 12/5/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a 16/600 PS LaserWriter on my LAN so I guess I must have
AppleTalk active. I recall from years back that AppleTalk might
slow down ethernet browsing activity on the WWW. Is that still
the case today? I've been making AppleTalk inactive but that
frustrates my wife when she trys to print. She doesn't want to
learn how to turn on AppleTalk. (I could script the activation if
that's my only option. Surely she could run that.) 7600/G3, 8500/
G3, and a B&W all running versions of OS9. Any thoughts?
In normal use AppleTalk browsing will only have minimal impact on
network performance. If it has more it means something is wrong.
Just turn it on and leave it on. The "AppleTalk will stop your
network" line was something IT types spawned so they wouldn't have
to deal with Apples.
In the 'ole days, AppleTalk did quite a bit of chattering, as part of
its continual search for nodes to talk to. But as I recall, Apple
fixed that back during the early System 7 days.
With more than a dozen OS 8/9/X AppleTalk hosts, on a 10-base
network, I've never seen that "reconfig" traffic hit more than 2%
(bandwidth) usage for about 30 seconds. And that was only when a
host was misconfigured.
FWIW,
- Dan.
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