Ipx Compatibility - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

IPX Compatibility Requirements for RAS Client
Restoring RAS Connections and IPX Compatibility

IPX Compatibility

IPX Compatibility and Multiple Network Attachments
IPX Compatibility Mode requires the services of SLP. For more information,
see "SLP Requirements for Server Name Resolution from RAS Clients" on
page 108.
Before installing the Novell IP Client with IPX Compatibility support, make
sure that the RAS Client is configured to perform only IP networking over the
RAS connections.
You must restart your workstation before re-establishing a RAS connection if
The RAS server assigns your client a different IP address during each
RAS connection
You are using IPX Compatibility Mode to run IPX applications or to
connect to IPX servers from your Novell IP Client
You can avoid the changing address problem over RAS connections if you
statically configure the IP address that your workstation uses over the dial-up
adapter.
You should be aware that limitations of the IPX stack present in Windows NT
and limitations of 16-bit IPX/SPX applications complicate operations of
multihomed workstations. These limitations impose additional configuration
requirements to make use of the services of IPX Compatibility from your
multihomed Novell IP Client.
Workstations connected to the network through more than one network
attachment are considered to be multihomed workstations. LAN connections
and RAS connections qualify as network attachments.
On Windows NT, the IPX stack does not allow IPX applications to detect
more than one network attachment to segments with the same network
number. This limitation forces you to configure different IPX Compatibility
Network Numbers (also known as CMD Network Numbers) for each adapter
used by your workstation to access the network if you want to allow your
Novell IP Client to simultaneously access IPX Servers through each one of the
adapters. For example, you could allow IPX Compatibility to use the default
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