Planning for CSX400 ISDN Configuration

Table 5 Configuring the Remote Router Database (Continued)

Remote Router

Item

Description

Configuration Database

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Address, Subnet Mask of the remote

 

IP Address, Subnet

network beyond the remote router;

 

Mask, and Metric

specifies metric for calculating route

TCP/IP Route Addresses

 

efficiency.

 

 

Remote WAN IP Address

IP Address and Subnet Mask of the

 

 

and Subnet Maska

Remote Router’s end of the WAN link.

 

Source WAN IP Address

IP Address and Subnet Mask of the local

 

and Subnet Maskb

end of the WAN link.

 

 

IPX Network Number, Hop Count and

 

IPX Routes: Network

Ticks for stations/nodes beyond the

IPX Routes

Number, Hop Count and

remote router. Hop count is number of

 

Ticks

routers to pass through and ticks is time

 

 

delay (each 1/18th of a second).

 

 

 

 

SAPs: Server Name,

Information defining application services

 

Server Type, Network

 

available on stations/nodes beyond the

 

Number, Node Number

IPX SAPs

remote router.

and Socket

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAN Network Number

Network Number for the WAN link

 

between target router and remote router

 

 

 

 

 

a. Used only in PPP numbered mode of addressing b. Used only in PPP numbered mode of addressing

NOTE

Make one chart for each remote router in the remote router database.

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CSX400-DC, CSX400 specifications

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