3Com 3500 manual Defines an AppleTalk interface, Interface. Seed interfaces only

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For CoreBuilder 9000: Applies to Layer 3 switching modules only.

Defines an AppleTalk interface.

Valid Minimum Abbreviation

ap i def

Important Considerations

■An AppleTalk interface defines the relationship between a virtual LAN (VLAN) and an AppleTalk network:

■Every AppleTalk interface has one VLAN associated with it.

■For routing purposes, you define a range of network numbers that are assigned to the AppleTalk interface. Example: 20301 – 20310

■You can configure the interface to be a seed or nonseed interface:

■Seed interface — Initializes (“seeds”) the network with your configuration information. This information includes the network range and zone name list.

■Nonseed interface — Listens for a seed router and then takes the zone and network range information from the first seed interface that it detects. After a nonseed interface obtains this information, it can participate in AppleTalk routing.

■Before you define the AppleTalk interface, you must define a VLAN and select AppleTalk as a protocol that the VLAN supports.

■Clients that have not been configured to use a particular zone use the default zone name.

■You can enter up to 16 zone names per interface.

Options

Prompt	Description	Possible Values		[Default]
Seed	Whether an interface is	■	n (no)	y (factory
Interface	configured as an AppleTalk	■	y (yes)	default), or
	seed (y) or non-seed interface			current value
	(n).
Start of	Start of the network range that	1 – 65279		–
network	is associated with the seed
range	interface. Seed interfaces only.
End of	End of the network range that	1 – 65279		Value specified
network	is associated with the seed			for start of
range	interface. Seed interfaces only.			network range,
				or current value