Viewing Netware Ipx Configuration Information; Determining Whether A Remote Ipx Router Is Reachable - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Field
Acknowledge Numbers
Allocation Numbers
Spoofing packets
Keep Alive Packets
Dropped

Viewing NetWare IPX Configuration Information

Determining Whether a Remote IPX Router Is Reachable

116 Internetwork Packet Exchange
Meaning
Shows the sent and received acknowledge number.
Shows the sent and received allocation number.
Shows the number of packets spoofed.
Shows the number of keep-alive packets dropped during this active spoof
session.
NOTE:
In the spoofing statistics fields, Sequence Numbers, Acknowledge
Numbers, Allocation Numbers, and Keep Alive Packets Dropped don't apply for
NCP TM .
To see how Internetwork Packet Exchange
IPXCON and select the following options:
IPX Router Information—To view whether the RIP, SAP, and NetWare
Link Services Protocol
router.
NLSP Information—To view NLSP configuration for the system and the
NLSP network.
Circuits—To view the IPX circuits configured for the router.
To determine whether a remote router is reachable, you can run an IPX Echo
test. To run an Echo test, load IPXPING and perform the following steps:
1
Specify the target router address in the Network field.
2
Specify the target router node number in the Node field.
3
Specify the number of seconds between each transmission in the Seconds
to pause between pings field.
4
Press Esc to begin transmitting.
IMPORTANT:
To run the IPX Echo test, both the machine originating the echo
packets and the machine responding to the echo packets must support IPXPING.
To support IPXPING, both machines must have IPXRTR.NLM, which is included in
NetWare 4.1 software and Novell Internet Access Server 4.1 software.
(IPX
TM
(NLSP ) protocols are configured for this
TM TM
) is configured, load
TM