AppleTalk Echo Protocol
AppleTalk Echo Protocol (AEP) is a term used in computer science .
The AppleTalk Echo Protocol , or AEP for short , is a protocol for testing components in an AppleTalk network, comparable to ping in IP networks.
It is defined in RFC 1742 .
The protocol belongs to the transport layer .
The AppleTalk protocol stack
The AppleTalk protocols can be divided into several layers that form a protocol stack . The protocols can be classified in the ISO-OSI reference model as follows :
| OSI layer | AppleTalk protocol stack | ||||||
| 7th | AFP | PAP | |||||
| 6th | |||||||
| 5 | ZIP | ASP | ADSP | ||||
| 4th | ATP | AEP | NBP | RTMP | |||
| 3 | DDP | ||||||
| 2 | LLAP | ELAP | TLAP | FDDI | ← AARP | ||
| 1 | LocalTalk |
Ethernet driver |
Token Ring Driver |
FDDI driver |
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literature
- Gursharan S. Sidhu, Richard F. Andrews, Alan B. Oppenheimer: Inside AppleTalk, Second Edition . Ed .: Apple Computer, Inc. 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1990, ISBN 0-201-55021-0 (English).
- Apple Computer Inc .: Inside Macintosh: Networking , 2nd, Addison-Wesley, 1994 , Chapter 1 - Introduction to AppleTalk (online version)