Prestige 128MH PSTN Router/Hub

8.2Bridge Ethernet Setup

Bridging is used to forward packets of unsupported protocols whose destination is not on the local Ethernet to the WAN.

Basically, all non-local packets are bridged to the WAN, however, your Prestige applies a special handling for certain IPX packets to reduce the number of calls, depending on the setting of the “Handle IPX” field.

Table 8-1 describes the [Handle IPX] field settings.

Table 8-1.

Handle IPX Field Settings

 

 

 

Handle IPX

 

Description

Setting

 

 

 

 

 

None

 

Nothing is done to IPX traffic.

 

 

 

Client

 

All RIP and SAP (Service Advertising Protocol) periodical response packets will not

 

 

trigger the call.

 

 

 

Server

No RIP or SAP packets will trigger the call. In addition, during the time when the ISDN line is down, your Prestige will reply to the servers watchdog messages on behalf of remote clients. The period of time that your Prestige will do this is linked to the [Ethernet Address Timeout] parameter in each Remote Node (see Remote Node Configuration). When a remote Ethernet address is aged out, there is no need to maintain its connection to the IPX server.

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