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Troubleshooting Novell Connectivity
listener on each IPX network. The router also contains a SAP table and
responds as necessary to GNS requests.
Cisco routers do not respond to a GNS request if a NetWare server is on the
segment.
In the next capture, the Ecorp server responded to the GNS broadcast sent
previously, and is providing the client with its IPX network address and sta-
tus as a file server:
Flags: 0x80
802.3
Status: 0x00
Packet Length:118
Timestamp: 22:56:14.565643 10/07/1998
802.3 Header
Destination: 00:60:08:9e:2e:44
Source: 00:60:08:9d:2a:8e
LLC Length: 99
802.2 Logical Link Control (LLC) Header
Dest. SAP: 0xe0 NetWare
Source SAP: 0xe0 NetWare Group LLC Sublayer Management
Function
Command: 0x03 Unnumbered Information
IPX - NetWare Protocol
Checksum: 0xffff
Length: 96
Transport Control:
Reserved: %0000
Hop Count: %0000
Packet Type: 4 PEP
Destination Network: 0xf3df9b36
Destination Node: 00:60:08:9e:2e:44
Destination Socket: 0x4000 IPX Ephemeral
Source Network: 0xf3df9b36
Source Node: 00:60:08:9d:2a:8e
Source Socket: 0x0452 Service Advertising Protocol
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