3Com 2500 manual Servers, Administering, server table using the Administration Console

11-8 CHAPTER 11: ADMINISTERING IPX ROUTING

Administering	Your system maintains a table of servers that reside on other IPX
Servers	networks. You can either use the Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) to
	exchange server information automatically or make static entries in this
	server table using the Administration Console.

Each server table contains the following information:

■Name — The user-defined name of the server.

■Type — The type of service provided by the server.

■Node — The 6-byte address of the server that can forward packets to the segment.

■Socket — The 2-byte socket address on which the server will receive service requests.

■Hop — The number of networks that must be crossed to reach the server. The maximum number is fifteen.

■Age — The number of seconds that have elapsed since the last time a server in the table was heard from.