Ipx Route Aggregation - Novell NetWare 6 Manual

IPX Route Aggregation

Figure 5 Aggregated Routes Topology
R3
RIP
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Internetwork Packet Exchange
Acknowledgment packet — A compression protocol packet that
acknowledges receipt of an IPX slot initialization packet. The
transmitting node continues to send slot initialization packets until it
receives an acknowledgment packet. After receiving the
acknowledgment packet, the transmitting node begins to send
compressed packets.
IPXCON does not track acknowledgment packets.
IPX Route Aggregation enables you to introduce routes learned through RIP
into an NLSP backbone in a summarized form. Route aggregation compactly
describes many IPX network numbers simultaneously by using an address and
mask pair. For example, all addresses from C9000000 to C9FFFFFF can be
represented using the address C9000000 and the mask FF000000.
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aggregation, a backbone network with several RIP areas attached. In
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by having routers R1, R4, R8, and R9 report address summaries for the
attached areas. In this scenario, the default route is the only information about
reachable external addresses that must be transmitted within an attached area.
Therefore, information within the attached areas is minimized.
R4
NLSP Backbone
R1
R2
RIP
shows a typical topology for using route
34, the information within the backbone is minimized
R10
R9
R8
RIP
R7