<<This is the point I most wanted to respond to.  If you have the luxury
of subnets, you should keep the DTCs/DTSLINK LANIC card(s) on a separate
subnet (or on a port of an Ethernet switch).  This isolates your DTC to
host traffic from the primary LAN, and vice versa.  Since a router or
switch won't transfer low-level DTC traffic, no bandwidth concerns.>>
 
Although the "isolation" is somewhat limited; since the TAC works by
accepting TCP/IP packets from the "outside world" and re-packaging them
as AFCP packets for the host (and vice versa for the outbound traffic:
1)  The "outside world" has to have access to the TAC; this is routable.
2)  The DTCManager machine has to have access to the TAC; this is not
routable.
3)  The TAC has to have access to the host; this is also not routable.
 
So you end up with all your inbound TCP/IP traffic showing up on the same
wire as the AFCP traffic between the host, DTC, and DTCManager PC.
 
This raises a configuration issue: can a DTC with a TAC be the "far" end
of a routable-AFCP link? My understanding is that RMP is not routable,
which would suggest that the answer is "no", but my understand may be out
of phase with reality.
 
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