Cabletron Systems CSX100 series User Manual - Ipx Routing

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Remote WAN Address

You may need to specify a remote WAN IP address for the WAN

connection to the remote router depending on IP address negotiation

under PPP.

Check with your system administrator for details on whether the router

must communicate in numbered or unnumbered mode and what

addresses are required.  The router is set to unnumbered mode by default.

This enables numbered mode on the WAN interface.

TCP/IP Remote Routes

An IP route includes an IP address, subnet mask, and metric (a number

representing the perceived cost in reaching the remote network or

station).

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 TCP/IP Default Route

A default route should be designated in the routing table for all

traffic that cannot be directed to other specific routes.

You will need to define the default route to a remote router or, if

required due to special circumstances, define an Ethernet gateway.

There can be only one default route specified for all the remote

database entries.

Advice:  It is often helpful to draw a diagram including all locations,

addresses, router names, etc. The following diagram shows the

information required to configure onlythe target router’s side.  If you

need to configure both ends of the WAN link, you will want to label all

information for the network.

IPX Routing

If you are configuring IPX routing, you will need to obtain the following

information (most likely from your network administrator).

Note: IPX routes define a path to a specific destination. They are

primarily needed by the routers to allow the servers and clients to

exchange packets. A path to a file server will be based on the Internal

Network Number of the server.

A path to a client will be based on the External Network Number

(Ethernet) of the client.