Forwarding Appletalk Traffic; Enabling Forwarding; Disabling Forwarding; Important Considerations - 3Com corebuilder 3500 Implementation Manual

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Forwarding
AppleTalk Traffic

Enabling Forwarding

Disabling Forwarding

Important
Considerations
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You can choose to enable or disable AppleTalk forwarding on your
system.
When you enable AppleTalk forwarding, you enable the forwarding of
Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) packets. Because AppleTalk uses this
network layer protocol, this also enables the routing of AppleTalk
packets. You enable routing of AppleTalk traffic on a system-wide basis.
This means all AppleTalk interfaces defined on the system forward
routable AppleTalk traffic. All non-routable protocols, or protocols not yet
configured for routing, are dropped.
When you disable AppleTalk forwarding, you disable the forwarding of
Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP) packets. Because AppleTalk uses this
network layer protocol, this also disables the routing of AppleTalk
packets. You disable routing of AppleTalk traffic on a system-wide basis.
This means all AppleTalk interfaces defined on the system will not
forward routable AppleTalk traffic. All AppleTalk traffic is dropped. In
addition, all traffic from non-routable protocols, or protocols not yet
configured for routing, are dropped.
Consider the following when enabling or disabling AppleTalk forwarding:
AppleTalk forwarding is
Requiring you to specifically enable AppleTalk forwarding system-wide
allows you to:
Verify that you have correctly set all necessary AppleTalk
configuration parameters before activating AppleTalk routing.
Age network ranges from routing tables to facilitate the changing
of network zone information, as described in the previous section.
by default.
disabled