Administering Routes

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Administering

Your system maintains a table of routes to other AppleTalk networks. The

Routes

routing table is generated automatically by the Routing Table Maintenance

 

Protocol (RTMP). RTMP defines 1) the rules for exchanging information

 

between routers so that the routers can maintain their routing tables, and 2)

 

the rules for the information contained within each routing table.

Each routing table entry contains the following information:

Network Range

A range of numbers used to designate a network segment’s identity

Distance

The distance in hops to the destination network

Interface

The defined interface number

State

The status (good, suspect, bad, or really bad) of each route

Displaying the You can display the routing tables for the system to determine which routes Routing Table are configured and if they are operational.

To display the contents of the routing table:

Top-Level Menu

 

 

system

 

 

 

 

interface

 

 

ethernet

 

 

fddi

route

display

atm

aarp

flush

bridge

zone

 

 

ip

forwarding

 

 

ipx

checksum

 

 

appletalk ping

snmp statistics analyzer

script logout

From the Administration Console top-level menu, enter:

appletalk route display

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