RE: IPX on Token Ring

From: Joel W. Ekis (jekis@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 12:35:07 GMT-3


   
The IANA owns a block of Ethernet addresses that in hexadecimal is 00:00:5e. Th
is is the high-order 24 bits of the Ethernet address, meaning that this block i
ncludes addresses in the range 00:00:5e:00:00:00 to 00:00:5e:ff:ff:ff. The IANA
 allocates half of this block for multicast addresses. Given that the first byt
e of any Ethernet address must be 01 to specify a multicast address, the Ethern
et addresses corresponding to IP multicasting are in the range 01:00:5e:00:00:0
0 through 01:00:5e:7f:ff:ff.

Since you choose the MAC to be AB:... you set the Mutlicast bit! (Remember tha
t 0xB = 1011 in binary) You just told the router that the server is using a mu
lticast MAC. On T/R!!!

Change your example to use the customary IPX server MAC of 0000.0000.0001 and a
ll will be fine.

Joel

At 06:47 PM 1/26/2000 -0600, Randall Scheffer wrote:
>Not sure about the address you are using have you tried a more basic address
>like network 100 host 0001.0001.0001? (also written 100.1.1.1 )
>
>1) ipx route 20 N.H.H.H (where N.H.H.H is the next hop ipx
>interface)
>
> follow this by ? and follow with proper hop and tick syntax
>
>
>2) ipx sap 4 name_of_server 20.abcd.1234.5678 0 2..... (0 is for all
>sockets, 2 is hops)
>
>
>2 cents,
>
>Randall
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alex Yeung [mailto:alex.yeung@lmco.com]
>Sent: January 26, 2000 6:19 PM
>To: CCIELAB
>Subject: IPX on Token Ring
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>If I have an IPX server on a token ring network with address ABCD.1234.5678,
>how do I set a static sap and a static route to this server?
>
>I've tried the following command, but it didn't work:
>ipx sap 4 FILE 20.ABCD.1234.5678 452 1
>the router will give me an error saying:
>%Illegal IPX address - multicast not permitted
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Alex Yeung, CCNP, MCSE
>Network Engineer
>



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