Cisco 2948 & Netware 3.2

[jward]

I have 3 Netware Servers and 20 NT Servers - I configured 1 VLan and all my NT Servers are communicating just fine. I've added IPX with the default encapuslation and I get tons of errors on the ports the Netware servers are on. Can some one let me know what I need to configure on the ports that the Netware servers are connected to.

Do I need to configure IPX on all ports or only the ports that the netware servers are on ?

Clients are on a 3com Switch 3300XM up-linked to the 2948
does the port the 3com switch connects to on the 2948 have to have IPX configured on it?
Thanks

 

[marks66]

My understanding is that the 2948 is a layer 2 device. You should only have to configure IPX on any router interfaces.

A layer 2 switch will pass all protocols by default. (IP , IPX, SNA, DECNET)

What errors do you get , check your ethernet frame type that is loaded on the Netware server.

 

[jward]

The 2948 is a Layer 3 switch, I can put netware on the switch and Login to it from any client. The problem I'm having is when I try to backup 1 netware server to another
the backup hangs. I remove the Netware backup server from the layer 3 switch and the backup takes off. I'm using a DLT autoloader on netware with CA's ArcServe.

 

[scaine]

We have over 25 2948's at my company, and I've never heard of a layer 3 image for it, jward. Are you sure it's a Cisco Catalyst 2948G? Perhaps it's a Cisco router - I'm not too familiar with Cisco router models, other than the bog-standard 2500 range.

If it is a Catalyst 2948G, you can issue a 'show port' command for the port which you believe is causing the problems - you mention that by removing a specific server from the 2948, everything works again. Try issuing a 'show port' command for that port. You may find that it is racking up a huge number of errors, usually indicating either a faulty NIC, or more likely, a speed/duplex mismatch.

To be honest though, the Catalyst 2948G units we use here have never suffered from more than about a 10% utilisation and we have twin gig uplinks on them. I really doubt that one misconfigured Netware server could have the impact you're describing.