Key Concepts; How Ipx Routing Works - 3Com corebuilder 3500 Implementation Manual

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Key Concepts

How IPX Routing

This section explains how IPX routing works and provides a glossary of IPX

routing terms.

To route packets using the IPX protocol, take these general steps:

1 Define an IPX routing interface.

2 Decide which IPX routing and server options you want to use.

3 Enable IPX forwarding.

The IPX routing interface defines the relationship between an IPX VLAN

and the subnetworks in the IPX network.

Each IPX VLAN interface is associated with a VLAN that supports IPX. The

system has one interface defined for each subnetwork to which it directly

A router operates at the Network layer of the OSI Reference Model. The

router receives instructions to route packets from one segment to

another from the network-layer protocol. IPX, with the help of the

Routing Information Protocol (RIP), performs network-layer tasks,

Addressing packets

Routing packets

Switching packets

Key Concepts

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