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Foil 26 AppleTalk - Six-layer Protocol Suite

From Introduction to Network Protocols Lectures at Xi'an Jaotong University -- Sept 1998. by Roman Markowski
Physical Layer:
  • Token Ring Hardware
  • Ethernet Hardware
  • LocalTalk Hardware (uses a synchronous RS-422A bus with speed 230.4 Kbps)
Data Link Layer:
  • TLAP - TokenTalk Link Access Protocol
  • ELAP - EtherTalk Link Access Protocol
  • LLAP - LocalTalk Link Access Protocol; uses CSMA/CA- collision avoidance
  • AARP - AppleTalk Address Resolution Protocol is included in LAP specification; it translates hardware addresses to AppleTalk addresses

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