IPX Disable Interface

Disables IPX on specific interfaces. That is, prevents the router from sending IPX packets over those interfaces.

Select the interface from the scrolling window.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Disable IPXWAN

IPXWAN is a protocol used to exchange necessary information between routers prior to exchanging standard IPX routing information over serial links.

Disable will disable IPXWAN on specific serial interfaces using the Point-to-Point protocol.

Select the interface from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Disable Replies to Get-Nearest-Server Requests

When a router receives a Get Nearest Server request, it should first check to see if any servers of the requested type reside on the same network as the requesting station. If such a server exists, the router should not respond to the Get Nearest Server request, because the server itself will respond. If no server local to the router exists, the router should respond with the nearest server of the type requested.

Disabling this parameter prevents the router from responding to Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) get-nearest-server requests from workstations that are attempting to locate a server.

Disable this feature with great caution. Choose this option only when there are multiple routers (or servers) on an IPX network and the best server is not behind this router.

Select the interface from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Enable Interface

Enabling IPX on specific interfaces allows the router to send IPX packets over those interfaces. Every interface must have a unique network number, corresponding to the number assigned to the attached IPX network. You will be prompted for a valid IPX network number if one has not already been configured.

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Enable IPXWAN

IPXWAN is a protocol used to exchange necessary information between routers prior to exchanging standard IPX routing information over serial links.

This option enables IPXWAN on specific serial interfaces using the Point-to-Point protocol. (IPXWAN is a Novell protocol used to exchange router-to-router information before exchanging IPX routing information and traffic over wide area networks.)

You are asked for a connection timer value and a retry timer value.

  1. Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

  2. Enter a connection timeout value

    This value specifies the IPX connection timeout period. A connection will time out if no IPXWAN packets are exchanged within the number of seconds specified by this parameter.

    Valid values: an integer number of seconds in the range of [5 - 300]

    Default Value: 60 seconds

  3. Enter a retry timer.

    This parameter specifies the amount of time to wait after a connection is timed out before trying to re-establish the connection.

    Valid values: an integer number of seconds in the range of [5 - 600]

    Default Value: 60 seconds

You are Prompted for the same parameters as Set Ipxwan, enabling you to initially set IPXWAN parameters without having to use Set. If you need to modify pre-configured parameters, then use Set Ipxwan.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Enable Replies to Get-Nearest-Server Requests

When a router receives a Get Nearest Server request, it should first check to see if any servers of the requested type reside on the same network as the requesting station. If such a server exists, the router should not respond to the Get Nearest Server request, because the server itself will respond. If no server local to the router exists, the router should respond with the nearest server of the type requested.

This parameter allows the router to respond to SAP get-nearest-server requests from workstations that are attempting to locate a server. This is the default setting.

Note: Disable this feature with great caution. Use disable reply-to-get-nearest-server only when there are multiple routers (or servers) on an IPX network and the "best" one is not behind this router.

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Ethernet_II

Selects the ethernet_II encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces. This encapsulation is required if you are using NetWare-VMS on the Ethernet, and is often used when there are ISO nodes on the same Ethernet.

The ethernet_II option (which is the default of NetWare 4.0 and greater) uses Ethernet version 2.0 protocol 81-37.

Note: When there are incorrect or invalid configuration records, the default Ethernet frame value of "ethernet_8023" is used

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Ethernet_8022

Selects the ethernet_8022 encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces. This encapsulation is required if you are using NetWare-VMS on the Ethernet, and is often used when there are ISO nodes on the same Ethernet.

The ethernet_8022 option uses Ethernet 802.3 with 802.2 SAP E0.

Note: When there are incorrect or invalid configuration records, the default Ethernet frame value of "ethernet_8023" is used.

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Ethernet_8023

Selects the ethernet_8023 encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces. This encapsulation is required if you are using NetWare-VMS on the Ethernet, and is often used when there are ISO nodes on the same Ethernet.

The ethernet_8023 option (which is the default of pre-Netware 4.0 and lower) uses ethernet 802.3 without any 802.2 header.

Note: When there are incorrect or invalid configuration records, the default Ethernet frame value of "ethernet_8023" is used.

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Ethernet_SNAP

Use this option to choose the ethernet_SNAP encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces. This encapsulation is required if you are using NetWare-VMS on the Ethernet, and is often used when there are ISO nodes on the same Ethernet.

Note: The ethernet_SNAP encapsulation is not architecturally valid and is not fast-pathed. No cache entries will appear for network entries using this encapsulation.

The ethernet_SNAP option uses Ethernet 802.3, 802.2 with SNAP PID 00-00-00-81-37.

You can also set encapsulation using "config network".

Note: When there are incorrect or invalid configuration records, the default Ethernet frame value of "ethernet_8023" is used.

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Token-Ring MSB

Use this option to choose the token-ring most significant bit (MSB) encapsulation format (router default) as the packet format for IPX interfaces.

The token-ring MSB option uses 802.5 with 802.2 SAP E0, and uses the non-canonical format for host addresses in the IPX packet header. The router builds outgoing packets with a three-byte 802.2 header (0xE0, 0xE0, 0X03).

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Token-Ring LSB

Use this option to choose the token-ring least significant bit (LSB) encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces.

The token-ring LSB option uses 802.5 with 802.2 SAP E0, and uses the canonical format for host addresses in the IPX packet header.

The router default value for the token-ring option is "MSB".

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Token-Ring_SNAP MSB

Selects the token-ring_SNAP most significant bit (MSB) encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces.

The token-ring_SNAP MSB option uses 802.5, 802.2 with SNAP PID 00-00-00-81-37, and uses the non-canonical format for host addresses in the IPX packet header.

The router default value for the token-ring option is "MSB".

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Frame Token-Ring_SNAP LSB

Use this option to choose the token-ring_SNAP least significant bit (LSB) encapsulation format as the packet format for IPX interfaces.

The token-ring_SNAP LSB option uses 802.5,802.2 with SNAP PID 00-00-00-81-37, and uses the canonical format for host addresses in the IPX packet header.

The router default value for the token-ring option is "MSB".

Select the interface you want to enable from the list of choices.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Host-Number

This parameter selects the host number used for serial interfaces running IPX.

This host number is the locally administered MAC address assigned to this port. Each IPX router operating over serial interfaces must have a unique host number, because serial interfaces do not have hardware node addresses from which to build a host number.

Enter the host number.

Valid Values: an 12-digit hexadecimal number in the range of [0000 0000 0001 - FFFF FFFF FFFE]

Default Value: none

It must be unique on each router. Note: A duplicate MAC address can cause a network malfunction.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set IPXWAN

Sets up or modifies an interface to use the IPXWAN protocol when you are starting IPX on a serial interface using the Point-to-Point protocol. Before using set ipxwan, enable IPXWAN using enable ipxwan.

Set ipxwan also queries for a connection timer value and a retry timer value.

  1. Select the interface you want to set from the list of choices.

  2. Enter a connection timeout value

    This value specifies the IPX connection timeout period. A connection will time out if no IPXWAN packets are exchanged within the number of seconds specified by this parameter.

    Valid values: an integer number of seconds in the range of [5 - 300]

    Default Value: 60 seconds

  3. Enter a retry timer.

    This parameter specifies the amount of time to wait after a connection is timed out before trying to re-establish the connection.

    Valid values: an integer number of seconds in the range of [5 - 600]

    Default Value: 60 seconds

Note: IPXWAN requires a router node-ID and name to be configured. The router node-ID is the primary network number for the router and must be assigned before the exchange of IPXWAN packets can begin.

In order to interoperate with the IBM 6611, use set host-number to set the node address used on the IPXWAN interface to the node-ID followed by four zeros. For example, if the IPXWAN node-ID is 454, set the host-number to 4540000.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Name

Use this parameter to assign a symbolic name to the router. IPXWAN requires a router to have a primary network number and a name.

Enter the router name.

Valid Values: a variable length string of 1 to 47 characters.

The router_name can contain the characters A through Z, 0 through 9, underscore (_), hyphen (-), and "at" sign (@).

Default Value: none.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Net-Number

Use this parameter to assign an IPX network number to the associated directly connected network.

Every IPX interface must have a unique network number.

  1. Select the interface you want to set from the list of choices.

  2. Select the Submit button.

  3. Enter the net number.

    Valid Values: 1 to 8 hexadecimal digits in the range of [1 - FFFF FFFE]

    Do not assign 0 or FFFF FFFF.

    Default Value: none

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Node Id

Use this parameter to set the user-assigned IPXWAN node id, which is the primary network number for the router.

IPXWAN requires a router to have a primary network number and a name.

  1. Enter the node-id.

    Valid Values: 1 to 8 hexadecimal digits in the range of [1 - FFFF FFFE]

    Default Value: none

    Do not assign 0 or FFFF FFFF as the node id.

This number is for the router as a whole. In NetWare file server terms, it is the internal network number. This number must be unique among all the network numbers in the IPX internet.

The node id is required when IPX WAN is enabled.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Maximum Routes-per-Destination

Specifies the maximum number of routes per destination network to store in the IPX RIP routing table.

You can configure IPX so that it keeps more than one routing table entry for the same destination network. The benefit of this feature is that if a route goes down, an alternate route is used immediately. The router does not have to wait for a RIP broadcast, which could take from a few seconds to a minute, to learn a new route. The router stores only equal-cost paths in the routing table.

Enter the maximum number of routes per destination.

Valid Values: an integer in the range of [1 - 64].

Default Value: 1.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Local-Cache Size

This parameter specifies the size of the local cache routing table.

The size of the local cache should equal the total number of clients on each router's local or client network plus a 10% buffer to prevent excessive purge requests.

Enter the IPX local node cache size.

Valid Values: The range is 1 to 10000.

Default Value: 32.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set Remote-Cache Size

Specifies the size of the remote cache routing table.

The size of the remote cache should equal the total number of remote networks used by the router plus a 10% buffer to prevent excessive purge requests.

Enter the remote network cache size.

Valid Values: The range is 1 to 10000.

Default Value: 32.

Select the Submit button.


IPX Set RIP-Update-Interval

IPX uses RIP to maintain routes in its routing tables. A route indicates the path a packet follows. The RIP update interval determines how often the router broadcasts its routing information tables to its interfaces. It also determines how long a RIP entry remains before being aged out.

Valid entries remain in the routing tables for a period of three multiples of the RIP update interval, and the router broadcasts its RIP tables once every update interval.

For example, the default interval is 1 minute, which allows a valid entry to remain in the table for 3 minutes. After this time, if an entry is not refreshed by a RIP update, the route is marked with a hop count of infinity (16), then deleted. Every 60 seconds the router broadcasts its RIP tables to corresponding interfaces.

Increasing the RIP interval reduces traffic on WAN lines and dial circuits. It also prevents dial-on-demand circuits from dialing out so often.

Note: While complete RIP advertisements are controlled by the interval, the router still propagates network topology changes as quickly as it learns them.

  1. Select an interface number.

  2. Select the Submit button.

  3. Enter a RIP timer value

    This parameter specifies the time delay in minutes between complete RIP updates given on an interface.

    Valid Values: The range is from 1 to 1440 minutes.

    Default Value: 1 minute.

The RIP interval is not configurable on the Novell file server.

Note that you must submit the interface and then the RIP timer value in two separate steps.

Select the Submit button.