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Ipx status displays, Rip table, Sap table – Cabletron Systems 1800 User Manual

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IPX Status Displays

RIP Table

To display the contents of IPX RIP Table, press

[A]

at the Protocol Status Displays

Menu (or

[C], [F], [A]

from the Main Menu). Each entry will contain the following:

Network

– IPX address of the network containing the SmartSwitch 1800 that

contains the interface.

Router Addr

– address of the router that will forward a packet when this route is

used.

Hops

– number of routers in a packet's path to the destination network.

TTime

– (Transport Time) time (in 55-millisecond units) that it will normally

take a packet to reach the destination network if this route is used.

DNA

– (Do Not Age) identifies whether aging is enabled. (Aging allows deletion

of entries from the table after a specified period.) Routes configured as static
(see "

Configuring Static IPX Routes

" on page 15-16) will not age (

DNA

=

TRUE

). Interfaces with

0

specified in their IPX Interface records for the

RIP Age

Timer

will also be

TRUE

. All others will be

FALSE

.

Intf

– (Interface) IP interface.

The IPX RIP table displays data verbatim. Non-ASCII data might be dis-
played on some server types.

SAP Table

To display the contents of the SAP Table, press

[B]

at the Protocol Status Displays

Menu (or

[C], [F], [B]

from the

Main Menu). Each entry will contain the following:

Name

– includes the name assigned to the server, the node identifier, and the

address socket.

Router Addr

– is the address of the router that will forward a packet when this

route is used.

Type

– is a SAP Service Type code, displayed in hex format. Some common

codes are:

0003

(print queue),

0004

(file server), and

0007

(print server).

IntNw

– (Intervening Networks) is the number of routers that a packet must pass

through to reach the server if this route is used.

DNA

– (Do Not Age) identifies whether aging is enabled. (Aging allows deletion

of entries from the table after a specified period.) Routes configured as static
(see "

Configuring Static IPX Routes

" on page 15-16) will not age (

DNA

=

TRUE

). Interfaces with

0

specified in their IPX Interface records for the

SAP Age

Timer

will also be

TRUE

. All others will be

FALSE

.

Intf

– (Interface) is the IP interface.