Migrating The Backbone First - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Migrating the Backbone First

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Server Communications Administration Guide
Migrating the backbone first alleviates administrative costs associated with
maintaining IPX over the backbone. This migration path requires the
following before IPX routing is disabled on the backbone:
Migration Agents at each of the segments connected to the backbone
Backbone Support feature enabled in the Migration Agents
Migration Agents with the Backbone Support feature enabled can
interconnect IPX segments by exchanging RIP and SAP information and by
routing encapsulated IPX datagrams.
The steps below describe how to migrate a network from IPX to IP starting
with the backbone first.
1
Identify the nodes and links that form the backbone of your network.
2
Select and upgrade/install some servers in each of the segments
connected to the backbone to serve as Migration Agents with the
Backbone Support feature enabled.
3
Migrate the backbone section using the steps outlined in
Section of the Network" on page
4
Select a leaf portion of the network to migrate. This can be a group of
segments connected to the backbone via a WAN link. Migrate the selected
portion of the network following the steps outlined in
Section of the Network" on page
5
Repeat Step 4 until all networks connected to the backbone are migrated.
The following figure shows how the steps above are applied in a sample
network.
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