Enterasys Networks ENTERASYS ATX manual Configuring IPX Routing on a port

The ATX Switch Chassis View

Figure 2-8. IPX Routing window

Configuring IPX Routing on a port

1.Click on the IPX selection box to enable IPX routing on the port.

2.Enter the (hexadecimal) Novell network number of the Novell network connected to this port in the IPX Network field. The network number is a

4-byte LAN address. Each port with IPX routing enabled must have a unique network number.

3.Select a frame type for the port by choosing a frame type from the IPX Framing pull-down menu. The available options are ethernet802.3, ethernet2, ieee802.2, or snap. See the section following, Selecting the Frame Type for a Port, page 2-13,for more information on selecting a frame type.

4.Click on Set to set the configuration on the port.

Selecting the Frame Type for a Port

Many IPX networks use a Novell proprietary type of framing instead of the Ethernet Standard (IEEE 802.3) type of framing. The type of framing used determines where information is positioned within an IPX packet. Each IPX configured port in your ATX Chassis must know what framing format is being used on each connected Novell segment, so that it will know where to look for information in the IPX packets it receives and where to place information in the packets it transmits. Once you set the IPX Framing in the IPX Routing window, the port can form IPX packets that the Novell nodes on each connected Novell network segment will recognize. You specify the frame type on a port-to-port basis. The following frame types are supported by the ATX:

1(ethernet802.3)	802.3 frames are the default for Ethernet links. This type
	of framing contains a 6-byte destination address, a 6-byte
	source address, 802.3 length field in the third field of the
	packet followed by the IPX header and the data.

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