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Configuring Our Internetwork with IPX

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2501C(config-if)#ipx network 50

2501C(config-if)#int s0

2501C(config-if)#ipx network 40

All four of the routers are now configured and should be up and working.

The best way to verify the configuration is with the show ipx route
command.

Verifying the IPX Routing Tables

To view the IPX routing tables, use the show ipx route command. Like IP,
IPX routers only know about directly connected networks by default. How-
ever, when I turned on IPX routing in the configuration examples above, IPX
RIP was automatically started on all routers.

IPX RIP will find all IPX networks in the internetwork and update all

routers' routing tables. Let's take a look at all routers in our internetwork
and see the IPX routing table.

2621A

The 2621A router is only connected to IPX network 10, so IPX RIP would
have to update the routing table of the other four IPX networks in the inter-
network.

Here is the routing table on the 2621A router:

2621A#sh ipx route

[output cut]

5 Total IPX routes. Up to 1 parallel paths and 16 hops

allowed.

No default route known.

C 10 (NOVELL-ETHER), Fa0/0

R 20 [07/01] via 10.0000.0c8d.3a7b, 16s, Fa0/0

R 30 [07/02] via 10.0000.0c8d.3a7c, 17s, Fa0/0

R 40 [07/02] via 10.0000.0c8d.3a7c, 17s, Fa0/0

R 50 [13/03] via 10.0000.0c8d.3a7c, 17s, Fa0/0

2621A#

The C means a directly connected IPX network, and the Rs are IPX RIP-

found networks. The [07/01] is the tick and hops needed to get to the
remote network.

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