ZyXEL Communications 128L User Manual

 

This chapter shows you how to configure your Prestige for IPX. 
Depending on your particular applications, you will need to 
configure different menus. We will illustrate the configuration for 
some applications in the following sections. 

The stations on an IPX network (both clients and servers) can run on 
four different frame types existing on one physical Ethernet cable. These 
frame types include 802.2, 802.3, Ethernet II (DIX), and SNAP. 

Whenever you are setting up an IPX routing environment, it is important 
to correctly configure the network numbers on the LAN. On any IPX 
network, there is an external network number that is, the number 
associated with the frame type on the Ethernet cable to which the 
stations on the network are joined. In addition to this external network 
number, each NetWare server has its own internal network number. It 
is important to remember that every network number has to be unique 
for that entire internetwork. So if a server station had an internal 
network number of 00000011, there is no other network number 
(internal or external) of 00000011 anywhere on the network. 

There are two different scenarios in which you would connect your 
Prestige to a LAN: one with a server (server side), and one without a 
server (client side).