Applications
IPX Routing
The P1705 & P1730 are
The IPX routing scenario may consist of one of the two following configurations. The first configuration consists of Novell servers located on each of the LAN segments to be connected. The second configuration consists of Novell servers located on only one of the LAN segments to be connected. The router IPX router will need to be configured differently in the second configuration with Novell servers located on only one of the LAN segments.
Novell Servers in Both Locations
An Ethernet IPX router is used to intelligently route Novell IPX LAN traffic to another network. The networks may be connected across a WAN link (illustrated below) or two LANs connected to a dual LAN P1730.
WAN connection
IPX Network Address |
1512 |
IPX Network Address 1500
LAN #1
LAN #2
Novell IPX Client Novell Server | Novell Server | Novell IPX Client |
Figure 2 -3 IPX Routed Local Area Networks (Servers on both sides)
IPX routers forward IPX frames based upon their IPX destination address and an internal routing table. The router maintains the internal routing table with the network IPX addresses and the remote partner IPX routers associated with those networks. When an IPX frame is received, the destination IPX address is 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 appropriate remote IPX network.
When both LAN segments contain Novell servers, the IPX network numbers are learned automatically; simply ensure that IPX routing is enabled on the router for both networks.
When two IPX LAN segments with Novell servers on each segment are to be connected via IPX routing, you must ensure that the IPX network numbers on each of the Novell servers is unique. If the IPX network numbers are the same, IPX routing 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
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