the main disadvantage being a lack of speed and the fact that modern hubs seem better at handling tcp/ip than appletalk. In a home office that does not matter much, but if you have to network some 25 clients and devices in an office building or department it is a pain in the ***.
A hub doesn't care whether a packet is AppleTalk, IP, NetWare or any other Ethernet based protocol. It just passes data around with out actually looking at the data (it doesn't decode the Ethernet packet). A switch won't care either. While it does examine the packet it only operates at the MAC address level. Again it doesn't matter what the packet is.
Maybe in theory, but not in practice. The hubs in my office crash when someone transfers files from or to the fileserver over appletalk. The hubs can handle AFP over IP alright but as soon as appletalk turns up its head trouble starts. Only the printing over appletalk seems to work just fine. I've noticed that especially the newer hubs have trouble with AFP over Appletalk.
Marten
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