User`s guide

Configuring
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Port 8 AppleTalk routing: enabled
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Port 21 AppleTalk routing: disabled
3.4.3 Disabling AppleTalk Routing
AppleTalk routing can be disabled on a per port basis using LCM.
AppleTalk packets that are received on disabled ports are
discarded.
To disable AppleTalk routing on a port or port range:
Type: atroute <port range> off.
For example, atroute 4–8 off would disable AppleTalk routing on
ports 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. LCM responds:
Port 4 AppleTalk routing: disabled
Port 5 AppleTalk routing: disabled
Port 6 AppleTalk routing: disabled
Port 7 AppleTalk routing: disabled
Port 8 AppleTalk routing: disabled
3.4.4 Assigning a Network Number
When you want a port to “seed the network”, that is, to be the port
that all other ports learn their network number from, you must
manually assign the port its network number. In AppleTalk Phase
2, the network number is actually a range of numbers. (A range of
0–0 indicates that this port is not the seed port.)
Once the last network has been seeded, when a port is enabled, it
learns it’s network number from the other routers on the network.
The only way to reseed the network is to bring down all the routers
at once and then start the seed process again. Any port can act as
the seed router, once it has seeded the network it is no different
from any other router on the network. If it goes down, newly
enabled ports will continue to learn their network identity from