Novell Ipx Configuration For Lan-To-Lan; Ipx Network Environment - ZyXEL Communications Prestige 153 User Manual

Prestige 153/153X WAN Bridge/Routers
Chapter 7

Novell IPX Configuration for LAN-to-LAN

This chapter shows you how to configure your Prestige for IPX protocol. Depending on your
particular applications, you will need to configure different menus. We will illustrate the
configuration for some applications in the following sections.
7.1

IPX Network Environment

7.1.1 Frame Type
The stations on an IPX network (both clients and servers) can run on four different frame types
existing on one physical Ethernet cable. These frame types include 802.2, 802.3, Ethernet II
(DIX), and SNAP.
7.1.2 Network Numbers
External Network Number
Whenever you are setting up an IPX routing environment, it is important to correctly configure
the network numbers on the LAN. On any IPX network, there is an external network number that
is, the number associated with the frame type on the Ethernet cable to which the stations on the
network are joined.
Internal Network Number
In addition to this external network number, each NetWare server has its own internal network
number. It is important to remember that every network number has to be unique for that entire
internetwork. So if a server station had an internal network number of [00000011], there is no
other network number (internal or external) of [00000011] anywhere on the entire network.
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