3Com 2500 Administering, Routes, Hops - The number of routers that must be crossed to reach the

Administering Routes 11-5

Administering	Your system maintains a table of routes to other IPX networks. You can
Routes	either use the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) to exchange routing
	information automatically or make static entries in this table using the
	Administration Console.
	Each routing table entry contains the following information:
	■ Address — The 4-byte IPX network address of a segment currently
	known to the router.
	■ Hops — The number of routers that must be crossed to reach the
	network segment. The maximum number of routers a packet can cross
	is 15. Exception: An IPX NetBIOS packet can cross no more than 7
	routers.
	■ Tics — An estimate of how long it will take the packet to reach this
	segment. A tic is approximately 55 milliseconds.
	■ Node — The 6-byte address of the router that can forward packets to
	the segment. A node address of all zeroes (00-00-00-00-00-00) means
	that the route is connected directly to the router.
	■ Age — The number of seconds that have elapsed since the last time
	the route was heard from.