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IPX Routing
This chapter describes how to configure IPX
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, IPX/RIP, and IPX/SAP on
the Intel
®
NetStructure
™
480T routing switch. It assumes that you are
familiar with IPX. If not, refer to your Novell documentation.
Overview of IPX
The 480T routing switch provides support for IPX, IPX/RIP (Routing
Information Protocol), and IPX/SAP (Service Advertisement Protocol).
The switch dynamically builds and maintains an IPX routing table and an
IPX service table.
The switch supports separate routing interfaces for IP and IPX traffic on
the same VLAN, load sharing of IPX routed traffic, and 802.1Q tagged
packets on a routed IPX VLAN.
Router Interfaces
The routing software and hardware routes IPX traffic between IPX router
interfaces. A router interface is simply a VLAN that has an IPX network
identifier (NetID) and IPX encapsulation type assigned to it.
As you create VLANs with different IPX NetIDs, the switch automatical-
ly routes between them. Both the VLAN switching and IPX routing func-
tion occur within the switch. You can configure a VLAN with either an
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