Services for Macintosh

AppleTalk Phase 2 Features

AppleTalk supports the following Phase 2 features:

LocalTalk networks, which have a single network number and can have as many as 254 nodes. (They are actually limited to 32 or fewer nodes because of media capacity.)
EtherTalk and TokenTalk networks, which can be assigned a network range so that the network can have more nodes. EtherTalk and TokenTalk networks can have as many as 253 nodes for every number in the network range, for a maximum of 16.5 million nodes.
LocalTalk networks, which each must be in a single zone. Each EtherTalk and TokenTalk network can have multiple zones, and individual nodes on a network can be configured to be in any one of the network's associated zones.