What does it mean that AppleTalk routing is going away?
The shutdown of AppleTalk routing on the Berkeley Lab backbone network will have two visible effects for users and providers of AppleTalk-based computing services. No AppleTalk Zones in Chooser. After AppleTalk routing is turned off, users will no longer see a long list of AppleTalk zones in the Chooser. Local AppleTalk zones will continue to exist, but there will no longer be a convenient way for Mac users in one IP subnet to access file servers, printers, or other Macs in another AppleTalk IP subnet. This has serious ramifications for departments and lab units who rely on such access for conducting lab business. AppleTalk Zones = Local IP subnet. When AppleTalk routing is turned off, the definition of what constitutes a local AppleTalk zone will change. A single AppleTalk zone will be equivalent to a single IP subnet. An IP subnet is comprised of those computers that are connected to the same physical strand of Ethernet cable coming from the local IP gateway. Computers on a IP subnet
