Need For Appletalk Routing; Configuring Appletalk Routing - Avaya Cajun P882 User Manual

Need for AppleTalk Routing

Configuring AppleTalk Routing

Avaya P550R, P580, P880, and P882 Multiservice Switch User Guide, v5.3.1
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, refer to the
AppleTalk documentation.
If you configure your Avaya P550R/P580/P880/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 network.
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
Configuring AppleTalk Routing
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