Inside AppleTalk / Gursharan S. Sidhu, Richard F. Andrews, Alan B. Oppenheimer.

Content

Part I Physical and data links.

Local talk link access protocol
Links access control
Node addressing
Node IDS
ETC.

2 Appletalk address resolution protocol
Protocol families and stacks
Protocol and hardware addresses
Address resolution
etc.

3. Ethertalk link access protocol
ELAP packet format
Address mapping in ELAP
Use of AARP by ELAP
etc.

Part II end to end data flow
4 Datagram delivery protocol
Internet routers
Sockets and socket identification
Network numbers
etc.

5 Routing table maintenance protocol
Internet routers
Local routers
Half routers.
etc.

6 Appletalk echo protocol

Part III named entities
Name-visible entities
Entity names
Name biding
Names directory and names tables.
etc.

8 Zone information protocol
Zip services
Networking numbers to-zone-name mapping
Zone information table
Zone information socket.
etc.

Part IV reliable data delivery
9 Appletalk transaction protocol
Transaction
At-least-once (ALO) transactions
Exactly- once (XO) transaction
etc.

10 Printer access protocol
PAP services
The protocol
PAP packet formats
etc.

11 Appletalk session protocol
What ASP does
What ASP does and do
ASP services and features
etc.

12 Appletalk data stream protocol
ADSP services
Connections
Data flow
Packet format
etc.

Part V End-user services
13 Appletalk filling protocol
File system structure
Designing a path to a CNode
AFP login
File server security
etc.

14 Print spooling architecture
Printing without a spooler
Benefits of printing with a spooler
Background spoolers versus spooler/server
etc.

Includes indexes.