3Com 3500 manual Ipx interface define, Defines an IPX interface

608CHAPTER 20: IPX

ipx interface define

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For CoreBuilder 9000: Applies to Layer 3 switching modules only.

Defines an IPX interface.

Valid Minimum Abbreviation

ipx i de

Important Considerations

■An IPX interface defines the relationships among an IPX virtual LAN (VLAN), the IPX router, and the IPX network. The IPX router has one IPX interface defined for each network than is directly connected to it.

■When you define an interface, you define the interface’s IPX address, cost, format, and any associated IPX VLAN index.

■Before you define the IPX (routing) interface, you must specify a VLAN and select IPX, IPX-II, IPX-802.2, IPX 802.2 LLC, IPX-802.3, or IPX-802.2-SNAP as a protocol that the VLAN supports, as described in Chapter 14. (For routing, a VLAN can now support multiple protocols.)

■Unless your network has special requirements such as the need for redundant paths, assign a cost of 1 to each interface.

■The two Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) encapsulation formats correspond to the Ethernet 802.2 LLC and 802.3 SNAP encapsulation formats. If you select either of these Ethernet encapsulation formats, the corresponding FDDI encapsulation format is automatically selected for shared Ethernet and FDDI ports.

Options

Prompt	Description	Possible Values	[Default]
IPX network	4-byte IPX address of the	0x1 – 0xfffffffe	–
address	interface. The address must be
	unique within the network.
Ticks	Number that the system uses to	1 – 65534	1
	calculate route time. (A tick is an
	estimate of how long a packet
	takes to reach the network
	segment.) There are 18.21 ticks
	in a second.