RSC/MP 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

IPX/SPX Network Interface Configuration
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SPX Network Interface Addressing
SPX Network Interface Addressing
The SPX NIF makes use of the Novell bindary services to resolve addresses to
network addresses. The SPX NIF provides two means of specifying the name for
which a listen will be posted:
•
The default use of SystemName.
•
The SPXName option which allows the choice of a specific name to be used for
the listen.
In either case, the DomainName is concatenated to form the actual name posted for
the listen.
No special configuration is required to address systems configured using the default
SPXName (SystemName) as the name for the listen. The Resolver section tag
SPXName provides the means to address those systems on which the SPX NIF has
been configured with an SPXName. The address tags are processed from left to right.
The NIF will try to connect to the address specified by each tag until either a
connection is established, or the tags are exhausted. See Creating the [RESOLVER]
Section (optional, for workstations only) on page 5-15 for more information about
extended addressing.
A sample SPX resolver entry is:
[Resolver]
yoursys.ourdomain.com=spxname:nifnvl1, spxname:nifnvl2
Configuring Multiple NIFs
The SPXName option must be used for systems that will run multiple instances of the
NIFNVL transport. The SPXName option must be a unique name if it will listen as an
SPX service. For clients to communicate with each other, an SPXName extended
address tag containing the destination SPXName must be provided in the Resolver
section. If the SPXName keyword is omitted from the [NIF-nifname] section, the default
SPXName for listening (passive opens) will be the SystemName option concatenated
with the DomainName option from the [PIPEMAN] section in the PIPE.INI file.
Special Considerations for Configuring NonStop
NIFs
For NonStop platforms, the Novell transport process name must be supplied in either
of two ways:
1. By the following command:
TACL DEFINE (DEFINE NETWARE^PROCESS^NAME,FILE $ZNVn)
where $ZNVn is the IPX/SPX process name of IPXPROTO.