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Internetwork Packet Exchange
Internetwork Packet Exchange
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August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual
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July 17, 2001
The best place to install the NetWare Mobile IPX Home Router software is on
the file server that the mobile clients use most, as shown in
. In this
way, when mobile clients access the file server, the responses from the file
server are patched with the mobile client's actual location before they ever
leave the server. Therefore, the responses do not travel an extra hop before
reaching the client.
Figure 9
Best Home Router Positioning
HINT:
We recommend having a Home Router in each operating area. For
example, in a large corporation, you should have a Home Router in marketing,
finance, manufacturing, and so on. This enables mobile client users to connect to
a preferred Home Router.
If the server and mobile clients are located on one side of a WAN link and the
Home Router is on the other side of the link, costly WAN bandwidth is used
unnecessarily. If both networks on each side of a WAN link require NetWare
Mobile IPX, you should have two Home Routers—one on each side of the
WAN link. Mobile clients use the closest Home Router, as shown in
.
Home
Router
on
Server 1
Server 3
Router
LAN 1
LAN 2
LAN 3
Access
Point
Server 2