Routing Appletalk protocol

[sphinx]

Folks i have some apple machines in my DMZ that run Appletalk protocol, i had no firewall between the DMZ and the LAN. I want to implement a Firewall between the DMZ and the LAN (UTM-1) but cant get the Appletalk protocol as an option to allow. I know now that this is a non TCP/IP protocol and "might not work" is there anything i can do to get this traffic to pass without turing the device into a router


Thanks in advance

[mcnallym]

As you have discovered Appletalk isn't tcp/ip. To get the traffic between the two then you would have to configure an Appletalk Router to do this.

Even if you can find a platform for Check Point that allows you to run an Appletalk Routing daemon ( and I don't know one that does ) then the Check Point itself doesn't understand what Appletalk is so would still fail.

Even if you run on a platform that supports Wire Mode/Transparent Mode the firewall still needs to have a definition for Appletalk.

Is there a particular reason why the Apple machines can't run TCP/IP stacks instead of Appletalk.