H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Operation Manual

Operation Manual – IP Address-IP Performance-IPX
H3C S7500 Series Ethernet Switches Chapter 3
IPX Configuration
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To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enable IPX
ipx enable
Required
Disabled by default.
Configure the
update interval of
IPX SAP
ipx sap timer update
seconds
Optional
By default, the update interval of
IPX SAP is 60 seconds.
Configure the aging
interval of IPX SAP
ipx sap multiplier
multiplier
Optional
By default, an IPX SAP service entry
is deleted if it is not updated within
three update intervals.
Enter VLAN
interface view
interface
Vlan-interface
vlan-id
—
Configure an IPX
network number for
the VLAN interface
ipx network network
Required
By default, the system does not
assign network numbers to VLAN
interfaces. That is, IPX is disabled
on all VLAN interfaces.
Enable IPX SAP
undo ipx sap
disable
Required
By default, SAP is enabled as soon
as IPX is enabled on the VLAN
interface.
Configure the size of
IPX SAP update
packets
ipx sap mtu bytes
Optional
By default, the maximum size of an
IPX SAP update packet is 480
bytes. Each SAP update packet can
carry up to seven sets of 64-byte
service information.
III. Configuring IPX GNS
Get nearest server (GNS) is a type of SAP message broadcasted by SAP-enabled
NetWare clients. To the GNS requests, NetWare servers respond with GNS messages.
If a NetWare server is available on the network segment to which the client is
connected, the server responds to its request. If no NetWare server is available on the
segment, the switch responds to such messages.
You can enable the switch to handle a SAP GNS request in one of the following ways:
z Respond with the information of the nearest server (the server with the smallest
hop count in the service information table on the switch).
z Respond with the information of one server that is picked out from all the known
servers through round-robin polling.
z Respond depending on whether SAP GNS reply is enabled on the VLAN interface.