Forwarding Appletalk Traffic; Enabling Forwarding; Disabling Forwarding; Important Considerations - 3Com 4007 Implementation Manual

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Forwarding
AppleTalk Traffic

Enabling Forwarding

Disabling Forwarding

Important
Considerations
T R
ALK OUTING
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 setting also enables the routing of AppleTalk
packets. This means AppleTalk interfaces can forward routable AppleTalk
traffic. All nonroutable 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 setting also disables the routing of AppleTalk
packets. This means that AppleTalk interfaces do not forward routable
AppleTalk traffic. All AppleTalk traffic is dropped. In addition, all traffic
from nonroutable protocols, or protocols not yet configured for routing,
are dropped.
Consider the following guidelines when you enable or disable AppleTalk
forwarding:
AppleTalk forwarding is disabled by default.
The requirement that you must specifically enable AppleTalk
forwarding makes it possible for you to verify that you have correctly
set all necessary AppleTalk configuration parameters before you
activate AppleTalk routing.