3Com CoreBuilder 2500 User Manual - page 198
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C
HAPTER
14: A
DMINISTERING
A
PPLE
T
ALK
R
OUTING
An AppleTalk interface has several elements associated with it:
■
Seed Interface
— You can configure the interface to be a seed
interface or nonseed interface. Seed interfaces initialize the network
with the configuration information that you enter. This information
includes network range, address, zone name, and ports. Nonseed
interfaces wait and listen for a seed interface and then take this
configuration initialization information from the first seed interface
they detect. After the nonseed interface obtains a network
configuration, it can participate in network routing.
■
Network Range
— A range of numbers used to designate a network
segment’s identity. This element allows the physical segment between
two CoreBuilder 2500 systems to support a range of multiple
networks.
■
Address
— The AARP address based on the network range and the
network node (
1
through
253
).
■
Zone
— The default zone name, and up to 15 additional defined
zones.
■
State
— The status of the AppleTalk interface, which indicates
whether the interface is available for communications (
up
) or
unavailable (
down
).
■
VLAN Index
— The number of the AppleTalk VLAN associated with
the AppleTalk interface. The VLAN index indicates the bridge ports
that are associated with the AppleTalk interface. When an
Administration Console menu prompts you for this option, it displays
a list of defined VLAN indexes and their ports.
Displaying AppleTalk
Interfaces
Use this command to display all of the AppleTalk interfaces and their
parameter settings that are configured for the system.
To display the AppleTalk interfaces defined on the router, from the top
level of the Administration Console, enter:
appletalk interface display
This example shows an AppleTalk interface:
Top-Level Menu
system
ethernet
fddi
atm
bridge
ip
ipx
➧
appletalk
snmp
analyzer
script
logout
➧
interface
route
aarp
zone
forwarding
checksum
ping
statistics
➧
display
define
remove
AppleTalk forwarding is enabled.
Index Network Range Address State VLAN index
1 20112-20112 20112.27 enabled 3
2 20124-20124 20124.1 enabled 4
3 20125-20125 20125.1 enabled 6