Community College of Rhode Island By Carl Marandola, CCAI-CCNA Year 2 - Chapter 7/Cisco 3 -Module 7 Novell IPX

Community College of Rhode Island Objectives Explain how Cisco routers are used in NetWare networks Describe the Novell NetWare protocol suite Describe Novell IPX addressing Describe Novell encapsulation Explain how Novell uses RIP for routing Describe Service Advertising Protocol Configure both the router Ethernet and serial interfaces with IPX addresses Describe how to discover IPX addresses on remote routers Describe how to verify IPX operation and connectivity between routers Explain troubleshooting in IPX operations

Community College of Rhode Island The Novell NetWare Protocol Suite

Community College of Rhode Island Novell Protocols Novell Netware is a proprietary suite of protocols and includes the following: –IPX, a connectionless Layer 3 protocol, that does not require an acknowledgment for each packet and defines the network and node addresses –Novell Routing Information Protocol (RIP), which is different from IP RIP, to facilitate the exchange of routing information –Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) to advertise network services –NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) to provide client-to-server connections and applications –Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX) service for Layer 4 connection-oriented services

Community College of Rhode Island IPX Features

Community College of Rhode Island IPX Characteristics It is used exclusively in a client/server environment. It uses the network.node IPX addressing structure. Its logical address contains an interface MAC address. IPX interface configuration supports multiple data- link encapsulations (to support outdated IOS applications). Novell RIP uses the distance-vector metrics of ticks and then hops. Service Advertisement Protocol (SAP) and Get Nearest Server (GNS) broadcasts connect clients and servers.

Community College of Rhode Island IPX Addressing The recommended way to get a Novell network address is to ask the network administrator. If you cannot get the address from the network administrator, you can get the IPX address directly from a neighbor router. Telnet to the neighbor router and use the show protocols or show ipx interface command.

Community College of Rhode Island Netware Ethernet Encapsulation

Community College of Rhode Island Cisco Novell Encapsulation Names

Community College of Rhode Island Novell RIP

Community College of Rhode Island Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) Each SAP service is identified by a number: Number SAP Service 4 NetWare file server 7 Print server 24 Remote bridge server (router)

Community College of Rhode Island Get Nearest Server Protocol

Community College of Rhode Island Novell IPX Configuration Tasks Novell IPX Global Configuration Assigning IPX Network Numbers to Interfaces Verifying IPX Operation

Community College of Rhode Island IPX Configuration

Community College of Rhode Island IPX Global Configuration Commands

Community College of Rhode Island Assign IPX Network Numbers to Interfaces

Community College of Rhode Island Monitoring and Troubleshooting IPX

Community College of Rhode Island The show ipx interface Command

Community College of Rhode Island The show ipx route Command

Community College of Rhode Island The show ipx servers Command Syntax: show ipx servers [ sorted [name | net | type ]]

Community College of Rhode Island The show ipx traffic Command

Community College of Rhode Island The debug ipx routing activity Command

Community College of Rhode Island The debug ipx sap [events|activity] Command

Community College of Rhode Island The IPX ping Commands Lab-X#ping ipx 91.bbbb.bbbb.bbbb Translating "91.bbbb.bbbb.bbbb" Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte IPX Novell Echoes to 91.bbbb.bbbb.bbbb, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 72/78/104 ms Lab-X# Lab-X#ping Protocol [ip]: ipx Target IPX address: 91.bbbb.bbbb.bbbb Repeat count [5]: 7 Datagram size [100]: Timeout in seconds [2]: Verbose [n]: Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 7, 100-byte IPX Novell Echoes to 91.bbbb.bbbb.bbbb, timeout is 2 seconds: !!!!!!! Success rate is 100 percent (7/7), round-trip min/avg/max = 64/70/88 ms Lab-X#