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Administering Routes 8-5
Administering
Routes
Each EFSM maintains a table of routes to other IPX networks. You can
either use the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) to exchange routing
information automatically or make static entries in this table using the
Administration Console.
Each routing table entry contains the following information:
■ Address
The 4-byte IPX network address of a segment currently known to the
router.
■ Hops
The number of routers that must be crossed to reach the network
segment. The maximum number of routers a packet can cross is fifteen.
The maximum number of routers an IPX NetBIOS packet can cross is
seven.
■ Tics
An estimate of how long it will take the packet to reach this segment. A
tic is approximately 55 milliseconds.
■ Node
The 6-byte address of the router that can forward packets to the
segment. A node address of all zeroes (00-00-00-00-00-00) means that
the route is connected directly to the router.
■ Age
This is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the last time the
route was heard from.