Adding And Deleting A Static Route For Ipx; Modifying The Static Netmask Table - Lucent Technologies PortMaster 4 Configuration Manual

Setting Static Routes

Adding and Deleting a Static Route for IPX

A static route for IPX contains the following items:
• Destination—The number of the IPX network to which the PortMaster will be
routing.
• Gateway—The address of a locally attached router where packets are sent for
forwarding to the destination.
For IPX networks, the gateway address consists of 8 hexadecimal digits for the
network address, a colon (:) and the node address of the gateway router expressed
as 12 hexadecimal digits—for example, 00000002:A0B1C2D3E4F5.
The IPX node address is usually the media access control (MAC) address on a
PortMaster.
• Metric—The number of routers (or hops) a packet must cross to reach its
destination. The metric represents the cost of sending the packet through the
gateway to the specified destination.
• Ticks—The time required to send the packet to its destination. Ticks are measured
in 50ms increments.The ticks metric is used in addition to the hops metric only on
IPX networks.
Note – Never set the gateway for the PortMaster to an address on the same PortMaster;
the gateway must be on another router.
Use the following commands to add a static route for IPX:
Command> add route Ipxnetwork Ipxaddress Metric Ticks
Command> save all
Use the following commands to delete a static route for IPX:
Command> delete route Ipxnetwork Ipxaddress
Command> save all
Use the following command to set a static default route for all IPX packets not routed by
a more specific route:
Command> set ipxgateway Network|Node Metric
Note – You can delete only static routes.

Modifying the Static Netmask Table

Note – ComOS 4.1 and later releases support both RIP-1 and RIP-2 on the PortMaster
4. Earlier releases of ComOS support only RIP-1.
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