From: Brent D. Stewart (brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 19:49:45 GMT-3
Okay, this is heavily condensed. Novell made a server that could also be
used as a router, and they viewed this as a selling point. Cisco made a
multiprotocol router that routed IPX and Novell saw this as competition.
The old commands were "novell routing" and Novell claimed that Cisco
couldn't use their copy writed name. So Cisco looks around and notices that
Novell never copy wrote "IPX", so they did. That's why if you look at the
copy write section in a book it says "IXP copy write Cisco". Cisco also
implemented an IPX ping before Novell did, so when Novell implemented it
they deliberately made it incompatible - I mean, it was THEIR protocol and
those californians (notice the small "c") took it!
To let the router use a Novell compatible ping, the command is something
like "ipx default-ping novell". I've never heard of a desktop
implementation, but it wouldn't shock me. You say that you can't get a ping
response from the client: apparently you know more than I do about Novell
clients. My best thought is that you should make sure you have the "ipx
default-ping novell" set. When I tried to duplicate this on a W2K machine,
it just interpreted the IPX address as an IP FQDN. Are you running a
different client?
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
Peter Whittle
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 5:36 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: PING IPX to PC fails
I am looking at IPX and am trying to look at the troubleshooting
facilities available.
In trying to prove the connectivity I am running in to problems, 'ping
ipx' is providing misleading results! According to ping all the routers
and the server have ipx connectivity. However, ping claims that there
is NO connectivity to the PC! Whereas, I can actually connect from the
PC to the server and copy files and print successfully!
I can successfully 'ping ipx' from any router to any other router and to
the Netware server. The PC client can login and mount the servers
resources. However, I can not get a ping response from the PC client!!!
I have a simple 3 router scenario:
R1
e0/0 ipx network 4 802.2 (SAP) --> PC
s0/0 ipx network 2 DTE / ppp
R2
s0 ipx network 2 DCE / ppp
s1 ipx network 3 DCE / ppp
R3
e0 ipx network 10 802.2 (SAP) --> SERVER
s0 ipx network 3 DTE / ppp
All 3 routers are configured for ipx ping-default Novell.
IPX RIP is running on the two ethernets and eigrp on the rest.
A Windows 95 PC (with MS netware client) is attached to network 4.
A Netware 5 server is attached to network 10 ethernet.
Any ideas / suggestions please.
Thanks
Peter
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