3Com SuperStack II 9300 Command Reference Manual page 616

C 20: IPX
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HAPTER
Fields in the IPX Route Display
Field
Address
Age
Hops
Interface
Node
Ticks
Description
Unique 4-byte network address of a segment in
the system's routing table.
Number of seconds that have elapsed since the last
time the router sent a packet.
Number of hops, or the number of routers that
must be crossed to reach the network segment.
System-assigned number for the interface.
6-byte MAC address of the router that can forward
packets to the segment. A node address of all
zeroes (00-00-00-00-00-00) means that the
route is connected directly to the router.
Number of ticks, which is an estimate of time in
seconds, that the packet takes to reach the
network segment. There are 18.21 ticks in a
second.