Novell Ipx Routing Service - HP 200 Series Services And Applications

Novell IPX Routing Service

Novell NetWare LANs are generally PC and/or workstation environments.
NetWare supports a wide variety of LAN topologies and media. The HP
routers support the Novell Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) routing
service and the Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX) protocol. IPX is the
network-layer communication protocol used by Novell NetWare. Using HP
routers you can interconnect NetWare LANs over a variety of WAN links to
form an IPX internetwork. NetWare clients can then access servers on both
local and remote networks.
Novell routers use the IPXWAN negotiation protocol over their WAN links.
IPXWAN was described in RFC 1362 by M.Allen,, "Novell IPX over Various
WAN Media (IPXWAN)", Novell Inc., September, 1992. A successor, IPXWAN
Version 2 (IW2), is now used. IW2 specifies initial connection setup methods
for running IPX traffic over WAN media such as PPP, X.25 switched virtual
circuits, X.25 permanent virtual circuits, and frame relay. HP routers will use
the IPXWAN (and IW2) protocol when it is configured for a WAN link, to
interoperate with a Novell router.
NetWare Services
Novell NetWare provides services that vendors and end users can use to
develop distributed applications. The basic services in a Novell network are
a collection of functions provided by a file server. The protocols used to
obtain these services are called the NetWare Core Protocols (NCP). They are
implemented at the ISO application layer on Novell end nodes (clients and
servers), but not on routers. ISO transport-layer functions are handled by the
Packet Exchange Protocol (PEP), which is often documented as a part of
NCP in Novell literature. A list of services commonly provided by Novell
NetWare follows.
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