Enterasys Networks ENTERASYS ATX - Manual (Page 76)

IPX Routing Tables
7-4 IPX Statistics
Port#
Displays the interface index of the port on your ATX through which the next hop
of the route should be reached.
Hop Count
Displays the secondary routing metric for this route, which is the number of
routers that must be traversed to reach the destination.
Next Hop
Displays the IPX node address of the next hop of this route, if indirect. If direct
this field displays the address of the local interface.
Age
Displays the number of seconds since the route was last updated.
Tick Count
Displays the primary routing metric of this route, which is an estimate of the
amount of ticks (55 millisecond intervals) that are needed to reach the destination
address.
IPX SAP
SAP (Service Advertising Protocol) provides a method for IPX servers to advertise
the services they provide. It functions similarly to RIP, but it is the servers that
send out broadcasts advertising the services they provide. IPX routers gather the
information, maintain a database of services they know about, and broadcast that
information to other routers. Clients can then find the servers that provide the
services they need. This table displays an entry for each SAP-cache service
presently known to this router. Each entry is an IPX service definition, as
advertised by the SAP protocol and distributed through the SAP cache of this
router.
Index
The SAP index number is not related to the interface number assigned to each
port. This index is just a number assigned to the SAP entry itself.
Type
Identifies the type of service provided by the server. Values range from 0 to ffff
and they are defined by Novell.
Name
The name assigned to the server.
Network
Displays the IPX network address of the server providing the indicated service (as
defined in the Type field).