Turning Off Microsoft Ipx Networking; Migrating To Have An Ip Only Network Eventually; Migrating From Ipx To Ip Without Using The Ipx Compatibility Feature - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Turning Off Microsoft IPX Networking

Migrating To Have an IP Only Network Eventually

Migrating from IPX to IP without Using the IPX
Compatibility Feature
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Server Communications Administration Guide
Clients might be set up to use Microsoft Networking over IPX and/or IP. If
clients are set up this way and you want to migrate them from IPX to IP, you
should first enable Microsoft Networking over TCP/IP and then disable
Microsoft Networking over IPX. This might be necessary to reduce the
demand on the services provided by the IPX Compatibility feature.
Use this migration method when pure IP is desired but there is no immediate
need to remove IPX from the network.This migration path requires migration
of all applications from IPX to IP before IPX is disabled on the
network.Applications are considered IPX applications if they use the
interfaces provided by the IPX stack, or if they specify IPX addresses when
trying to establish NCP connections. The best way to identify IPX
applications is to run them on a test network on which IPX is absent (no IPX
stacks loaded). Many applications let you specify the networking protocol to
use when communicating.NetWare clients must be configured twice during
the course of the migration. The cost of modifying client configurations can
be minimized by taking advantage of the Automatic Client Upgrade feature
for Novell Clients and the Workstation Manager feature of NDS
discover that applications require IPX, you must switch to one of the other
migration strategies:
Migrating to Obtain Internet Connectivity (page 42)
Migrating to Cut IPX Administrative Costs (page 42)
The steps below describe how to migrate a network from IPX to IP without
relying on the IPX Compatibility feature.
1
Identify IPX applications and make sure that they can be configured/
upgraded/replaced to run over the TCP/IP stack.
2
Start upgrading/installing your servers and clients using the IP and IPX
option.
3
Start migrating applications from IPX to IP.
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