3rd party Rendezvous-compatible wireless routers?

[Art Gorski]

I've just confirmed that, although my SMC 7004AWBR router passes
AppleTalk just fine between the wireless and wired sides, it definitely
does NOT pass Rendezvous. This is non-intuitive, since Rendezvous is
advertised as being TCP/IP friendly. Whatever.

So, are there any non-Apple wireless broadband routers out there that DO
support Rendezvous?

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Art Gorski * Mac Integration Staff * Rice University * Houston, Texas
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[David Turley]

In article <agorskiNOSPAM-8CD595.09123207102003@joe.rice.edu>,
Art Gorski <agorskiNOSPAM@rice.edu> wrote:

> So, are there any non-Apple wireless broadband routers out there that DO
> support Rendezvous?

My Linksys BEFW11S4 works just fine using Rendezvous between a wired
iMac and an unwired PB.

[Tom Harrington]

In article <agorskiNOSPAM-8CD595.09123207102003@joe.rice.edu>,
Art Gorski <agorskiNOSPAM@rice.edu> wrote:

> I've just confirmed that, although my SMC 7004AWBR router passes
> AppleTalk just fine between the wireless and wired sides, it definitely
> does NOT pass Rendezvous. This is non-intuitive, since Rendezvous is
> advertised as being TCP/IP friendly. Whatever.

Rendezvous is TCP/IP communication, however it is specifically designed
to work only on the "local" network. Meaning that it's not supposed to
be routed, ever. It should work fine between Macs on the same side of
the router but should not cross the router to connect Macs on opposite
sides.

If this device of yours were configured as a wired/wireless bridge
rather than as a router, then Rendezvous packets would most likely pass
through it.

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Tom "Tom" Harrington
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[Spud Demon]

Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> writes in article <tph-1B9804.10085807102003@localhost> dated Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:08:58 -0600:

>In article <agorskiNOSPAM-8CD595.09123207102003@joe.rice.edu>,
> Art Gorski <agorskiNOSPAM@rice.edu> wrote:
>

>> I've just confirmed that, although my SMC 7004AWBR router passes
>> AppleTalk just fine between the wireless and wired sides, it definitely
>> does NOT pass Rendezvous. This is non-intuitive, since Rendezvous is
>> advertised as being TCP/IP friendly. Whatever.

>
>Rendezvous is TCP/IP communication, however it is specifically designed
>to work only on the "local" network. Meaning that it's not supposed to
>be routed, ever. It should work fine between Macs on the same side of
>the router but should not cross the router to connect Macs on opposite
>sides.
>
>If this device of yours were configured as a wired/wireless bridge
>rather than as a router, then Rendezvous packets would most likely pass
>through it.

Some NAT routers have fairly dumb DHCP servers which will tell all their
clients that all traffic has to be routed, even though the clients are
connected through the built-in switch.

Art, are you using DHCP? Can you tell what netmask your clients are
getting? You might want to try manually assigning IP addresses and netmasks
of 255.255.255.0.

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[Art Gorski]

In article <blv0be$k2e$3@newslocal.mitre.org>,
[email]lewis@PROBE.mitre.org[/email] (Spud Demon) wrote:

>Tom Harrington <tph@pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> writes in article
><tph-1B9804.10085807102003@localhost> dated Tue, 07 Oct 2003 10:08:58 -0600:

>>
>>Rendezvous is TCP/IP communication, however it is specifically designed
>>to work only on the "local" network. Meaning that it's not supposed to
>>be routed, ever. It should work fine between Macs on the same side of
>>the router but should not cross the router to connect Macs on opposite
>>sides.

The wireless and wired sides of the router are all in a single subnet.
Why would this be considered 'routing'?

>Some NAT routers have fairly dumb DHCP servers which will tell all their
>clients that all traffic has to be routed, even though the clients are
>connected through the built-in switch.
>
>Art, are you using DHCP? Can you tell what netmask your clients are
>getting? You might want to try manually assigning IP addresses and netmasks
>of 255.255.255.0.

I don't use DHCP, and have manually assigned non-routable 192.168.xx.yy
addresses to all my Macs and my printer. The mask is as you suggest.
Everything BUT Rendezvous works great.

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Art Gorski * Mac Integration Staff * Rice University * Houston, Texas
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