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HP A-MSR Router Series 
IPX 

Configuration Guide 

Abstract 

This document describes the software features for the HP A Series products and guides you through the 
software configuration procedures. These configuration guides also provide configuration examples to help 
you apply software features to different network scenarios. 
 

This documentation is intended for network planners, field technical support and servicing engineers, and 
network administrators working with the HP A Series products. 

Part number: 5998-2034 
Software version: CMW520-R2207P02 
Document version: 6PW100-20110810

 

 

 

 

Содержание A-MSR Series

Страница 1: ...dures These configuration guides also provide configuration examples to help you apply software features to different network scenarios This documentation is intended for network planners field technical support and servicing engineers and network administrators working with the HP A Series products Part number 5998 2034 Software version CMW520 R2207P02 Document version 6PW100 20110810 ...

Страница 2: ... MATERIAL INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Hewlett Packard shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with the furnishing performance or use of this material The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompa...

Страница 3: ...nfiguring IPX SAP GNS request response mode 6 Configuring IPX service information 7 Configuring the IPX forwarding feature 8 Configuration prerequisite 8 Configuring triggered updating 8 Pinging an IPX network 9 Configuration prerequisites 9 Configuration procedure 9 Displaying and maintaining IPX configuration 9 IPX configuration example 10 Troubleshooting IPX configuration 12 IPX forwarding fail...

Страница 4: ...b 47 more accurately it is 0000 00cb 0047 Therefore an IPX address can also be expressed in the form of N H H H in which N is the network address and H H H is the node address RIP IPX employs RIP to maintain and advertise dynamic routing information Via RIP an IPX router exchanges routing information with neighbors and maintains an inter network routing information database usually called routing ...

Страница 5: ...n items by default If a large amount of service information needs to broadcast the information can be sent in several packets For example 20 service information items can be sent in 3 packets NetBIOS To enable use of network basic input output system NetBIOS in a NetWare environment Novell provides the following solutions As a broadcast a NetBIOS packet is not routable A mechanism is needed for th...

Страница 6: ...leted Configuring IPX routing With the IPX protocol enabled on an interface the system automatically enables RIP to maintain and advertise dynamic routing information Configure the following routing features based on the actual network requirements Configuring IPX static routes Configuring IPX route number limit Configuring IPX RIP static route redistribution Configuring IPX RIP related parameters...

Страница 7: ...tive routes into inactive routes if the number of newly configured equivalent routes is bigger than the number of active routes and equivalent inactive routes exist the system changes these inactive routes to active ones to reach the number of configured equivalent load balanced routes Step Command Remarks 1 Enter system view system view 2 Configure the maximum number of routes to the same destina...

Страница 8: ...3 times the update interval 4 Enter interface view interface interface type interface number 5 Configure the maximum length of IPX RIP updates ipx rip mtu bytes Optional The default is 432 bytes Configuring IPX SAP With IPX enabled on an interface the system automatically uses SAP to maintain and advertise dynamic service information You can also configure the SAP related parameters or service inf...

Страница 9: ...ngth of IPX RIP updates ipx sap mtu bytes Optional The default is 480 bytes seven 64 byte service information items can be included in a SAP update Configuring IPX SAP GNS request response mode GNS is a SAP message broadcast by a SAP enabled NetWare client A NetWare server responds to the request with a Give Nearest Server message If the NetWare server and the client reside in a common network the...

Страница 10: ...not limit the amount of static service information but the amount of dynamic service information If the newly configured queue length is less than the original length the table items in the service information table are not deleted if the amount of service information for the same service type reaches the configured value new service information items are not added To configure IPX service informa...

Страница 11: ...packet is used in NetBIOS You can either prohibit or permit the forwarding of type 20 broadcast packets based on the actual requirements Step Command Remarks 1 Enter system view system view 2 Enter interface view interface interface type interface number 3 Enable the IPX triggered update feature ipx update change only Required Disabled by default 4 Enable the IPX split horizon feature ipx split ho...

Страница 12: ...ion Available in any view Display the detailed IPX routing information both active and inactive display ipx routing table network verbose begin exclude include regular expression Available in any view Display IPX routing information of the specified route type display ipx routing table protocol default direct rip static inactive verbose begin exclude include regular expression Available in any vie...

Страница 13: ...the IPX network Figure 1 Network diagram IPX Eth1 1 1000 00e0 fc01 0000 Eth1 1 1001 00e0 fc01 0001 Eth1 2 2 00e0 fc01 0002 2 0000 0c91 f61f Router A Router B Server Client Eth1 2 3 00e0 fc01 0003 Configuration procedure 1 Configure Router A Enable IPX RouterA system view RouterA ipx enable Enable IPX on the interface Ethernet 1 2 with the network ID being 2 RouterA interface ethernet 1 2 RouterA E...

Страница 14: ...1 2 quit Enable IPX on the interface Ethernet 1 1 with the network ID being 1001 RouterB interface ethernet 1 1 RouterB Ethernet1 1 ipx network 1001 RouterB Ethernet1 1 quit Configure a Server file service information item RouterB ipx service 4 server 2 0000 0c91 f61f 451 hop 2 Configure a Server print service information item RouterB ipx service 26B tree 2 0000 0c91 f61f 5 hop 2 RIP and SAP are a...

Страница 15: ...ble Enable IPX packet debugging using debugging ipx packet Use the detailed information displayed about IPX packets received transmitted forwarded and discarded to locate the error Symptom 3 Packets are discarded Solution If IPX packet debugging information displays that a packet is discarded and the information displayed is Packet size is greater than interface MTU it indicates that the output pa...

Страница 16: ...e lower layer connection of the two devices may exist If a RIP packet with routing information is received from the peer use debugging ipx rip event to see whether the received route is added to the routing table If not faults occurred when the route was added to the routing table Possible faults could be that the packet encapsulation formats of the end interfaces do not match or a bad RIP packet ...

Страница 17: ...mptom 3 No new dynamic service information items in SIT Solution Use debugging ipx packet and debugging ipx sap packet verbose to check whether relevant packets are received If no packet is received problems in lower layer network connection may exist If IPX is disabled use ipx enable in system view to enable IPX Use display ipx interface to make sure that IPX is configured on relevant interfaces ...

Страница 18: ...isplay ipx service table to check whether the requested service information is available in the SIT table If not SAP does not respond If the requested service information is available check whether the service information is learned from the interface that received the GNS requests In that case SAP also does not respond to the GNS requests Symptom 7 SAP does not respond to GNS requests in the roun...

Страница 19: ...gured on a per network ID basis with ipx route max reserve path If it is not configured the default value 4 is used Use display ipx routing table verbose to check whether the existing dynamic route number under the destination network ID has reached the maximum number If the upper limit is reached the newly received routes are not added to the routing table Use ipx route max reserve path to adjust...

Страница 20: ... wwalerts After registering you will receive email notification of product enhancements new driver versions firmware updates and other product resources Related information Documents To find related documents browse to the Manuals page of the HP Business Support Center website http www hp com support manuals For related documentation navigate to the Networking section and select a networking categ...

Страница 21: ...one choice multiple choices or none 1 n The argument or keyword and argument combination before the ampersand sign can be entered 1 to n times A line that starts with a pound sign is comments GUI conventions Convention Description Boldface Window names button names field names and menu items are in bold text For example the New User window appears click OK Multi level menus are separated by angle ...

Страница 22: ... device such as a router or Layer 3 switch Represents a generic switch such as a Layer 2 or Layer 3 switch or a router that supports Layer 2 forwarding and other Layer 2 features Port numbering in examples The port numbers in this document are for illustration only and might be unavailable on your device ...

Страница 23: ...s 18 documents and manuals 17 icons used 18 subscription service 17 support contact information 17 symbols used 18 websites 17 icons 18 initializing NetWare client 2 IPX address structure 1 configuration 1 10 configuring basic functions 2 configuring forwarding feature 8 configuring route number limitation 4 configuring routing 3 configuring SAP 5 configuring SAP GNS request response mode 6 config...

Страница 24: ...ransmitted 13 updating SAP periodically 2 maintaining IPX configuration 9 manuals 17 message IPX SAP GNS 6 mode IPX SAP GNS request response 6 NetBIOS configuring triggered updating 8 IPX 2 NetWare configuring IPX SAP GNS request response mode 6 initializing client 2 IPX configuration 1 10 NetBIOS 2 protocol and standards 2 network management IPX configuration 1 10 pinging an IPX network 9 number ...

Страница 25: ...ubleshooting no active service information in SIT 14 troubleshooting no new dynamic service information in SIT 14 troubleshooting no response to GNS requests 15 troubleshooting no SAP response to round robin mode GNS requests 15 troubleshooting no updates received on interface 14 troubleshooting no updates sent from interface 15 troubleshooting packets not received 12 updating periodically 2 servi...

Страница 26: ... no SAP response to GNS requests 15 no SAP response to round robin mode GNS requests 15 no updates received on interface 14 no updates sent from interface 15 packets discarded 12 route cannot be found 16 SAP packets not received 12 static route redistributed but not advertised IPX RIP 13 updating SAP periodically 2 triggered 8 websites 17 ...

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