Need For Appletalk Routing; Configuring Appletalk Routing - Avaya P580 User Manual

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Need for AppleTalk Routing

Document No. 650-100-700, Issue 1

Zone Information Protocol (ZIP)

AppleTalk routers use this protocol to map network numbers to

zones. Each AppleTalk router maintains a Zone information Table

which lists the zone-to-network mapping information.

For more detailed information about these protocols, see the AppleTalk

documentation.

If you configure your Avaya P580 or P882 Multiservice switch into a

network running AppleTalk routing, you should be aware of the following:

Appletalk is built into all Apple devices, thus making them

automatically network capable. This makes Apple an extremely

easy network system to install and maintain.

Due to the naming mechanism that AppleTalk uses, users do not

have to understand how AppleTalk works.

AppleTalk supports a peer-to-peer network, thus dedicated servers

or centralized network are not required.

AppleTalk is plug-and-play (auto-configuring). Therefore, users can

plug an Appletalk device into an AppleTalk network and use it

immediately. No network configuration or assignments of network

addresses are needed when you add a device to an AppleTalk

AppleTalk support zones, which makes it easier for network

administrators to define workgroups that consist of users and

services that can span multiple networks segments.

This section provides procedures for:

Enabling AppleTalk Global Routing

Creating an AppleTalk Routing Interface

Editing AppleTalk Interfaces

Deleting an AppleTalk Interface

Creating an AppleTalk Static Route

Editing AppleTalk Static Routes

Configuring AppleTalk Routing