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examined and looked up in the routing tables. Once the destination IPX address is found in the routing tables, the IPX router sends the IPX frame to the remote partner router that is connected to the appropriate remote IPX network.
To configure the router to be an IPX router when both LAN segments contain Novell servers, the IPX network numbers are learned automatically from the routing information and service announcements sent by the servers. The router will automatically assign the IPX network numbers and proceed to route the IPX frames to the appropriate destination network.
When two IPX LAN segments with Novell servers on each segment are to be connected together with IPX routers, you must ensure that the IPX network numbers on each of the Novell servers is unique. If the IPX network numbers are the same, the IPX routers will not operate.
Once the WAN connections have been established to the remote partner routers, the IPX router portion of the routers will begin to build their routing tables according to the IPX frames they receive from the network. Manual entries may be made in the routing tables by adding static IPX routes.
The configuration options described here are only for initial set up and configuration purposes. For more information on all of the configuration parameters available please refer to the router PPP Menus Reference Manual file on the accompanying
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