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IPX
This chapter provides guidelines and other key information about how to
use the Internet Packet eXchange (IPX) protocol routing commands to
route packets from your system to an external destination.
The IPX protocol is a NetWare LAN communications protocol that moves
data between servers and workstation programs running on various
network nodes. IPX is a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) that is used for
connectionless communications. IPX packets are encapsulated and
carried by Ethernet packet and Token Ring frames.
To route packets using the IPX protocol, you:
1
Define an IPX routing interface
2
Decide which IPX routing and server options you want to use
3
Enable IPX forwarding.
An IPX routing interface defines the relationship between an IPX virtual
LAN (VLAN) and the subnetworks in the IPX network. Each routing IPX
VLAN interface is associated with a VLAN that supports IPX. The system
has one interface defined for each subnetwork that is directly connected
to it. You must first define a VLAN, as described in Chapter 14, before
you define an associated IPX VLAN interface.
For more information about IPX, see the
Implementation Guide
for your
system
.
For the CoreBuilder
®
9000, the commands in this chapter apply to
Layer 3 switching modules only.
