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8.
Use the show protocol and show ipx interface commands to see
the IPX addresses of an interface.
9.
Once you find the IPX address of your neighbor routers, ping using the
IPX protocol. (You can either go to the neighbor routers' console port,
use the show protocol or show ipx interface command, or use the
CDP protocol to gather the protocol information, as sh cdp entry *.)
10.
Use the ipx maximum-paths command to tell a Cisco router that it is
possible there is more than one link to a remote network. (The IPX
protocol, by default, only looks for one route to a remote network.
Once it finds a valid route, it will not consider looking for another
route, even if a second route exists.)
11.
Verify this command with the show ipx route command.
Hands-on Lab 8.2: Adding Secondary Network Addresses
and Multiple Frame Types with IPX
In Lab 8.1, you added IPX routing to your routers and IPX network numbers
to your interfaces. By default, Cisco routers run the 802.3 Ethernet frame
type. To add a second frame type (Ethernet supports four) to your Ethernet,
use the encapsulation command. However, you need to remember two
things: You must use a different network number for each frame type and
you cannot add Ethernet frame types to a serial link. Let's configure Router
2501A with a second frame type on the Ethernet LAN.
1.
In Ethernet configuration mode, use the IPX network command with
a different IPX network number and then use the encapsulation
command. Here is an example on Router 2501A:
2501A#config t
2501A(config)#int e0
2501A(config-if)#ipx network 10a encapsulation ?
arpa Novell Ethernet_II
hdlc HDLC on serial links
novell-ether Novell Ethernet_802.3
novell-fddi Novell FDDI RAW
sap IEEE 802.2 on Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring
snap IEEE 802.2 SNAP on Ethernet, Token
Ring, and FDDI
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