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Chapter 8
Configuring Novell IPX
The Cisco IOS will perform per-packet load sharing by default over these
parallel lines. Packets will be sent on a round-robin basis between all equal-
cost lines, without regard to the destination. However, if you want to ensure
that all packets sent to a destination or host will always go over the same
line, use the ipx per-host-load-share command.
The ipx maximum-paths command is shown below. It tells the IPX RIP
protocol to perform round-robin load balancing across two equal-cost
paths.
Router#config t
Router(config)#ipx maximum-paths 2
Router(config)#^Z
Router#sh ipx route
Codes: C - Connected primary network, c - Connected
[output cut]
5 Total IPX routes. Up to 2 parallel paths and 16 hops
allowed. [output cut]
The show ipx route command shows that two parallel paths are now
supported.
The Show IPX Traffic Command
The show ipx traffic command gives you a summary of the number and
type of IPX packets received and transmitted by the router. Notice that this
command will show you both the IPX RIP and SAP update packets.
2501A#sh ipx traffic
System Traffic for 0.0000.0000.0001 System-Name: RouterA
Rcvd: 15 total, 0 format errors, 0 checksum errors,
0 bad hop count, 0 packets pitched, 15 local
destination, 0 multicast
Bcast: 10 received, 249 sent
Sent: 255 generated, 0 forwarded
0 encapsulation failed, 0 no route
SAP: 1 SAP requests, 0 SAP replies, 0 servers
0 SAP Nearest Name requests, 0 replies
0 SAP General Name requests, 0 replies
0 SAP advertisements received, 0 sent
0 SAP flash updates sent, 0 SAP format errors
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