On Nov 23, 2003, at 11:50 pm, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
> Maybe in theory, but not in practice. The hubs in my office crashThere is one router, one switch and about 5 or 6 hubs.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.
Is it possibly a router or switch instead of a hub? A true hub won't (and
can't) care about what type of traffic is being passed.
And there-in lies the problem. Routers and Bridges are protocol level dependent and thus will not accept anything they are not set up to pass. TCP/IP routers that don't support AppleTalk will reject signals that are not routable, and may even just throw a panic fit (are these cheap routers or expensive ones?) Switches and Hubs however are packet level dependent and thus pass any packet that is designated to pass packets from one MAC address to another, regardless of what it contains.
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