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Answers to Scenario 7-4: IPX Filtering 513
SAPs about Server 1 (network 1000) are filtered from being sent out serial 0.2 and serial 0.3 to
Nashville and Boston, respectively. Likewise, SAPs about Server 2 (network 1001) are filtered
from being sent out serial 0.1 to Charlotte. Server 3 will not know about Server 2, so it cannot
tell Charlotte clients about Server 2. Likewise, Server 4 and Server 5 will not know about Server
1, so they cannot tell Nashville clients and Boston clients about Server 1.
SAP filters are also great for reducing traffic, of course. However, when using them for stopping
particular clients and servers from communicating, there are some caveats. If no servers were
in place in Charlotte, Nashville, or Boston, the remote clients would have used Server 1 or
Server 2 as their GNS server. Server 1 and Server 2 have full knowledge of each other's SAP
information because they are on the same Ethernet. Therefore, clients would be capable of
connecting to the servers, in spite of efforts to prevent the connections using SAP filtering.
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