Prestige 128MH PSTN Router/Hub

Chapter 7

Novell IPX Configuration for LAN-to-LAN

This chapter shows you how to configure your Prestige for IPX protocol. Depending on your particular applications, you will need to configure different menus. We will illustrate the configuration for some applications in the following sections.

7.1IPX Network Environment

7.1.1 Frame Type

The stations on an IPX network (both clients and servers) can run on four different frame types existing on one physical Ethernet cable. These frame types include 802.2, 802.3, Ethernet II (DIX), and SNAP.

7.1.2 Network Numbers

External Network Number

Whenever you are setting up an IPX routing environment, it is important to correctly configure the network numbers on the LAN. On any IPX network, there is an external network number that is, the number associated with the frame type on the Ethernet cable to which the stations on the network are joined.

Internal Network Number

In addition to this external network number, each NetWare server has its own internal network number. It is important to remember that every network number has to be unique for that entire internetwork. So if a server station had an internal network number of [00000011], there is no other network number (internal or external) of [00000011] anywhere on the entire network.

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128MH specifications

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