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The four Ethernet IPX frame options are 802.3, 802.2, SNAP, and Ether-

net II. Note that Cisco refers to these Novell names with different terminol-
ogy, as shown in Table 9.1.

It was noted earlier that all resources need to use the same frame type on

the network. There are times, however, when more than one frame type
might be supported on a particular segment. This may be during a transition
from one frame type to another, or to support a specific hardware or soft-
ware platform. This usually involves configuring the server and/or router for

T A B L E 9 . 1

Novell Ethernet Encapsulations

NetWare Frame
Type

Features

Cisco Term

Ethernet_802.3

Default IPX frame type
through NetWare 3.11. 802.3
supports only IPX and con-
tains a length field after the
source MAC address. It is
available only on Ethernet.

novell-ether

Ethernet_802.2

Default IPX frame type since
NetWare 3.12. This frame type
is supported for Ethernet, FD-
DI, and Token Ring. It is rec-
ommended in environments
that have a combination of
physical media.

sap or iso1

Ethernet_II

Supports both TCP/IP and IPX.
The ether type is placed after
the source MAC address. IPX
uses 8137 for the ether type;
IP uses 0800.

arpa

Ethernet_SNAP

AppleTalk, IPX, and TCP/IP are
supported on Token Ring,
Ethernet, and FDDI. It includes
a SNAP header.

snap

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