Configuring AppleTalk Routing Protocols
As indicated in the discussion of dynamic routing protocols for TCP/IP in Chapter 4, many factors affect the decision of which routing protocol to implement on your network. These factors—network topology, scalability, ease of implementation, and convergence speed—are just as important in your decision of what dynamic routing protocol to use for AppleTalk as they are for IP.
The Cisco IOS offers two dynamic AppleTalk routing protocols: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP) and AppleTalk EIGRP. Unlike TCP/IP, AppleTalk has a default dynamic routing protocol, RTMP, that operates without manual configuration by the network administrator. AppleTalk EIGRP can be implemented on a network's IOS devices on ...
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