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Internetworking Packet Exchange (IPX)
Frame Types
Introduction
To change the frame type
Novell Addressing
Address notation
A short description of these protocols is given here:
Protocol
Description
IPX
The Internetwork Packet eXchange protocol is based on a net-
work layer datagram without delivery guarantee. This protocol is
used by all the protocols described above.
RIP
The Routing Information Protocol is used to gain access to
remote networks and to exchange routing topology information.
SAP
The Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) is Novell's implementa-
tion of name-service. All services (for example, file servers,
printer servers and gateways) announce themselves in periods of
one minute.
Data
For example NCP, SPX or NetBIOS.
Transmis-
sion.
Novell supports different types of Ethernet frames. The frame type supported de-
pends on the default value of the specific Novell driver.
The different frame type supported by Novell IPX are described in
"Novell IPX Frame Formats", p.
The frame type supported by your PCs can be changed using a program delivered
together with the operating system for your NetWare server. These programs al-
low you to configure Ethernet IEEE 802.3, Ethernet IEEE 802.2, Ethernet SNAP
and Ethernet II frames. The program available depends on the version of the
Novell operating system.
The Novell IPX hexadecimal address notation consists of a 4-byte network num-
ber, followed by the 6 byte node-ID (MAC address) and a 2-byte socket number,
for example
00000001:000080123403:0451
work number,
000080123403
127.
, where
the node ID and
the socket number.
0451
Novell IPX Routing
Novell Routing Concept
Appendix E
is the net-
00000001
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