AppleTalk Network Elements 8-3
Figure 8-1 illustrates the relationship between physical AppleTalk
networks and logical AppleTalk zones.
Figure 8-1 AppleTalk Networks and Zones
This example shows an AppleTalk intranet with three subnetworks:
47-47, 20-40, and 8-8. Three AppleTalk zones span these networks:
Administration, Accounting, and Marketing. Network 20-40 includes two
nodes in the Administration zone and five nodes in the Accounting zone.
Network 47-47 includes a node from the Accounting zone and all nodes
in the Marketing zone. Network 8-8 consists of nodes in the
Administration zone only.
Creating zones within a network reduces the amount of searching that a
router must do to find a resource on the network. For example, to gain
access to a printer on the network, instead of searching the whole
network when you want to print a file to a certain printer, the router
searches for it within a particular zone. You gain access to the printer
more quickly within the zone because the zone includes fewer devices
than the entire intranet.
Zone: Administration
Zone: Accounting
Zone: Marketing
Router
Router
Network 8-8
Network 20-40
Network 47-47
Router
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