Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual page 1759

Figure 9 Best Home Router Positioning
Server 2
Server 3
Home
Router
on
Server 1
48
Internetwork Packet Exchange
The best place to install the NetWare Mobile IPX Home Router software is on
the file server that the mobile clients use most, as shown in
way, when mobile clients access the file server, the responses from the file
server are patched with the mobile client's actual location before they ever
leave the server. Therefore, the responses do not travel an extra hop before
reaching the client.
Access
Point
HINT:
We recommend having a Home Router in each operating area. For
example, in a large corporation, you should have a Home Router in marketing,
finance, manufacturing, and so on. This enables mobile client users to connect to
a preferred Home Router.
If the server and mobile clients are located on one side of a WAN link and the
Home Router is on the other side of the link, costly WAN bandwidth is used
unnecessarily. If both networks on each side of a WAN link require NetWare
Mobile IPX, you should have two Home Routers—one on each side of the
WAN link. Mobile clients use the closest Home Router, as shown in
LAN 3
Router
LAN 2
LAN 1
Figure 9. In this
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