9-6 CHAPTER 9: ADMINISTERING APPLETALK ROUTING
Flushing all Routes Flushing deletes all dynamically learned routes from the routing table.
To flush all learned routes:
1At the Administration Console’s top-level menu, enter:
appletalk route flush
2Enter the slot(s) of the EFSM(S) for which you want to flush all learned
routes.
Administering the AARP Cache
AARP allows hardware addresses to be mapped to an AppleTalk protocol
address. AppleTalk uses dynamically assigned 24-bit addresses, unlike the
statically-assigned 48-bit addresses used by Ethernet and token ring.
To make the address mapping process easier, AARP uses an Address
Mapping Table (AMT). The most recently used addresses are maintained in
the AMT. If an address is not in the AMT, AARP sends a request to the
desired protocol address and the hardware address is added to the table
when the destination node replies.
AARP is also responsible for registering a node’s dynamically assigned
address on the network. This process is described below:
■AARP randomly assigns an address.
■AARP broadcasts AARP probe packets to this address to determine if
another node is already using the address.
■If there is no reply, the address becomes that node’s address.
■If there is a reply, AARP repeats this process until an available address is
discovered.
In the Administration Console, you can:
■Display the cache
■Remove entries
■Flush the cache
Top-Level Menu
system
ethernet
fddi
tokenring
bridge
ip
ipx
➧appletalk
snmp
analyzer
script
logout
interface
➧route
aarp
zone
forwarding
checksum
ping
statistics
display
➧flush