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AppleTalk Routing Commands
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The following commands are used to display AppleTalk information and statistics.
atalk arp
This command will display the AARP (AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol) cache. AARP
is used to map between a device’s AppleTalk address and their physical address. A sample
output screen is shown below:
where:
Address 21.1 is Entry 1’s AppleTalk address.
08:00:07:8f:90:04 is Entry 1’s physical address (MAC address).
valid is the state of Entry 1’s address. The state value can be either valid or pending. If the
state is valid, an address will have been logged (as shown). If the state is pending, the
address would not yet be logged, and would appear as 00:00:00:00:00:00.
atalk ping <dnet>.<dnode> [timeout/dnnn]
This command will allow you to “ping” a specified device. If the ping is successful, you have
connectivity to the device. If it is unsuccessful, you do not have connectivity to the device.
The parameters for this command are:
dnet
Required parameter. The destination network number.
dnode
Required parameter. The destination node Id.
timeout
Optional parameter. The number of seconds to wait for a reply message. The valid range is
from 1 to 60 seconds. The default value is 10 seconds.
nnnn
Optional parameter. The data size to be included in the ping packet. The valid range for the
data size is 5 to 586 octets. The default value is 100 octets.
An example atalk ping command could read as follows:
atalk ping 1.3 30 /d200
which would send a ping to node number 3 or network number 1, with a timeout value of 30
seconds, and the data size would be 200 octets.
Entry 1: Address 21.1 @ 08:00:07:8f:90:04, valid
