Multi-Tech Systems MTASR1-100 - Manual (Page 56)

MTASR1-100 Owner’s Manual
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IPX General Setup
This dialog box allows you to setup the various configuration options for IPX routing protocol. The IPX General
Setup dialog box is displayed by clicking on the IPX button in Router Setup dialog box. These options apply to
all ports on which routing takes place.
IPX Routing Enable =[enabled | disabled]
Check this item to enable IPX routing. If IPX routing is disabled (this item is not checked) and Spanning Tree
Bridging is enabled, IPX packets are bridged.
IPX Auto Learn Ethernet Network Numbers
RouteFinder can learn the IPX network address set up on the Ethernet from a Novell file server (or any other
server, including routers, which support SAP). If you have a file server on the LAN side, you can make use of
this feature.
IMPORTANT: Auto-Learn is setup so that the router attempts for some amount of time to learn the IPX
network address of the LAN segment it is attached to. If it is not able to do this in the configured amount of
time, then it will use the default network address as configured. In case this router comes up earlier than a file
server on the same segment, it is possible that the router resorts to using the default network number. In such
situation, you will get a warning on your file server about conflicting network numbers. In case this happens,
reset the router to bring it up again (causing it to come up later than the file server). The file server will issue
network number conflict warnings only a certain number of times.
If the LAN segment does not have a file server, then this option should be disabled.
IPX Router Name = [ASCII text string]
Defines a text name for the IPX router which is distributed to the other IPX services via SAP messages. This
is 48 characters long.
IPX Router Internal Network Number = [32 bit hex IPX network number]
Defines a network number for a virtual LAN within the RouteFinder. This parameter is provided for Novell
compatibility. Novell file servers define a similar virtual network number upon which the actual file server node
resides in order to ensure that the file server remains equidistant from all other services located on the
attached IPX networks.
The RouteFinder assumes the Ethernet port address's least significant 4 bytes for this value. In case this
value clashes with any of your IPX internetwork values, contact Multi-Tech Support for advice, refer to Chapter
9.
Message Printing Control
Items in this section control the display of various messages on the console terminal. Check the items that
you desire to display messages. Normally you should not enable any of these items as they will degrade
router performance.