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AppleTalk Interfaces
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Important
Considerations
Before you configure AppleTalk interfaces, review the following
guidelines and considerations:
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Your system can support up to 32 AppleTalk interfaces.
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Each seed interface supports up to 16 zones.
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Your system supports a maximum of 1 AppleTalk interface per VLAN;
overlapping AppleTalk interfaces on a bridge VLAN are not allowed.
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A seed router interface maintains its configuration (local zone and
local network information) even if the information conflicts with other
routers on the same network.
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The network range is a contiguous range of numbers between 1 and
65,279.
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The network node number that a router dynamically assigns to itself is
a value between 1 and 253, inclusive.
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Node numbers 0, 254, and 255 are reserved by the AppleTalk
protocol.
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The maximum number of active AppleTalk devices on a network is
equal to the number of network numbers multiplied by the number of
possible node numbers.
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All seed routers on a particular network must have the same value for
both the start and end of the network number range. For example, if
you have a segment to which multiple routers are attached and you
have assigned a network range of 4–9, then all seed router ports
attached to the segment must also be configured with a network
range of 4–9.
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All seed routers on a particular network must be configured with the
same zone names. For example, if you have a segment to which
multiple routers are attached and you have assigned the zone names
Sales
and
Marketing
to the segment, then all seed routers attached to
the segment must also be configured with the zone names Sales and
Marketing .