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IPX

This chapter provides guidelines and other key information about how to use the Internet Packet eXchange (IPX) protocol routing commands to route packets from your system to an external destination.

The IPX protocol is a NetWare LAN communications protocol that moves data between servers and workstation programs running on various network nodes. IPX is a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that is used for connectionless communications. IPX packets are encapsulated and carried by Ethernet packet and Token Ring frames.

To route packets using the IPX protocol, you:

1Define an IPX routing interface

2Decide which IPX routing and server options you want to use

3Enable IPX forwarding.

An IPX routing interface defines the relationship between an IPX virtual LAN (VLAN) and the subnetworks in the IPX network. Each routing IPX VLAN interface is associated with a VLAN that supports IPX. The system has one interface defined for each subnetwork that is directly connected to it. You must first define a VLAN, as described in Chapter 14, before you define an associated IPX VLAN interface.

For more information about IPX, see the Implementation Guide for your system.

For the CoreBuilder® 9000, the commands in this chapter apply to Layer 3 switching modules only.

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