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

Key Concepts

How IPX Routing
Works
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
connected.
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,
including:
Addressing packets
Routing packets
Switching packets
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