cisco ipx 1

[perseusc]

HI
i have built a small cisco lab to practice with, i have them connected through the serial interfaces, one one end i have a station, swittch and routher; on the other end i have a rother, switch, station and a novell server 5.1. I have the serial link up, ip configured ( i can ping anything from both sides), the station where the server is can attach to it fine, the station on the remote side can not. Novell server has ip configured and i thought at least that is what i read, that it can use pure ip if you prefer to, i configured ipx also just in case. I am not very familiar with the ipx config on the router, i configred the internal network number the same as the NIC on the server, enabled ipx routing...what else do i need to do to be able to attach from the other side? any comments of suggestions would be appreciated..

thanks

Perseus C.

 

[ADB100]

That should be it with regards to IPX. Make sure you can see all the IPX routes (and Servers) from the remote site, make sure the IPX encapsulation types are correct:

show ipx routes
show ipx servers

For IP can you ping from the remote client to the Server? If you can it is probably a name resolution issue. IIRC there are various options for IP name resolution with Netware - NWHOSTS file, DNS, SLP multicasting, plus some others I think?

Andy

 

[perseusc]

i can ping the novell server from the remote site, encapsulation type on the server is 802.3, encapsulation type on the router's ethernet inteface is novell-ether, ipx routing, both network numbers are the same, etc.
One thing i did not mention is that remote router does not seem to have ipx commands, does this mean that does not support ipx? remote router is 2620 and router on server's side is 2500...
the show ipx routes does not show any routes on router, show ipx servers does not show the server either...

 

[perseusc]

this is what some commands show, type at the server's side router


OBR_LAB_RTRB#show ipx interface
Ethernet0 is up, line protocol is up
IPX protocol processing disabled
Serial0 is up, line protocol is up
IPX protocol processing disabled
Serial1 is administratively down, line protocol is down
IPX protocol processing disabled
OBR_LAB_RTRB#show ipx route
Codes: C - Connected primary network, c - Connected secondary network
S - Static, F - Floating static, L - Local (internal), W - IPXWAN
R - RIP, E - EIGRP, N - NLSP, X - External, s - seconds, u - uses

1 Total IPX routes. Up to 1 parallel paths and 16 hops allowed.

No default route known.

L 100 is the internal network