
Configuring AppleTalk Services
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AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol (AARP)
For a Bay Networks AppleTalk router to forward a packet to a directly connected
AppleTalk node, the router needs to know the
• Packet’s AppleTalk address
• Corresponding hardware address of the node where the AppleTalk address
resides
The router uses the AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol (AARP) to map
AppleTalk addresses to their equivalent hardware addresses. The router saves this
information in its address mapping table (AMT), which lists all known AppleTalk
addresses, corresponding hardware addresses, and the circuit/port where the
address resolution is in effect.
The router updates and maintains its AMT by broadcasting and receiving AARP
packets (F
igure 1-3). When the router needs to send a packet to a given AppleTalk
address, it scans its AMT to find the address. If the address is not found, the router
broadcasts a single
Request
packet to find out which node is using the address.
If the address exists, the node whose address matches that specified in the Request
packet sends back a
Response
, which identifies the hardware address that maps to
the AppleTalk address. The router then updates its AMT with this new
information. The router waits 2 seconds for a response.
AARP is also responsible for generating a unique AppleTalk address for each of
the router’s AppleTalk interfaces that have not been explicitly assigned. This
process is called
probing
. The Bay Networks AppleTalk router implements this by
first generating a tentative AppleTalk address for the interface in the format
<start_network_number>.<start_node_number>
where
•
<start_network_number>
is the lowest end of the network number range
assigned to the network to which this interface connects.
•
<start_node_number>
is a randomly selected node number that could be
assigned to this interface.
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