3Com 3C840 manual Services include file servers and printers, Associated remote site is active

Configuring IPX Static and Framed Services 9-7

■IPX Network (address) — The IPX address of the network.

■Metric — The number of routers (1-15) through which data packets travel before reaching their destination.

■Ticks — A tick represents how far away the destination is for a data packet (in seconds).

6After you have entered the fields, click Submit.

7Click Modify to change the fields, the Details button to view the fields, and the Delete button to erase the parameters you have set.

Configuring IPX	The services table contains IPX server names, the services they provide,
Static and Framed	their network and node addresses, and their relative distances. Examples
Services	of services include file servers and printers.
	A static service entry will remain in the service table until deleted. Static
	services differ from dynamic services in that dynamic services are learned
	real-time via SAP packet exchange between routers.
	A static service entry is a manually configured service accessible over the
	LAN. A framed service is a manually configured service accessible from a
	remote site. A framed service is active only when the connection to the
	associated remote site is active.
	Use static and framed services only for servers not learned using SAP.