3Com CoreBuilder 2500 - IPX Routing in the Netware Environment; Routing Information Protocol (RIP); Service Advertising Protocol (SAP); Internet Packet Exchange (IPX)

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ROUTING WITH IPX
This chapter provides an overview of IPX routing, including:
■ IPX Routing in the NetWare Environment
■ How IPX Routing Works
■ Elements of IPX Routing
IPX Routing in
the NetWare
Environment
The NetWare network operating system was developed and introduced
to the market by Novell, Inc., in the early 1980s. Much of the NetWare
networking technology was derived from XNS, a networking system
developed by Xerox Corporation.
The NetWare operating system is based on a client/server architecture in
which clients request services, such as file and printer sharing, from
servers. The NetWare operating system uses the upper five layers of the
Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model.
The CoreBuilder
™
2500 system uses the following protocols for routing in
a NetWare environment:
■ Internet Packet Exchange (IPX)
■ Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
■ Service Advertising Protocol (SAP)
Figure 6-1 illustrates a simplified view of the better-known protocols of
NetWare and their relationship to the OSI Reference Model.