Configuring AppleTalk on an Access Server
The default value for n is the number of access server asynchronous ports divided by 8. For instance, the default cache size on a 16 port access server would be 2.
The DEFINE APPLETALK ADDRESS CACHE command lets the access server manager trade off address use versus the probability of simultaneous Appletalk session requests.
∙If the value of n is set too high, the access server can acquire too many addresses, exhausting the supply available for the rest of the network.
∙The access server serializes address acquisition attempts, which typically require about 2 seconds each. If the access server