User Guide

48 Server Communications Administration Guide
Server Communications Administration Guide
103-000145-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Avoiding Inefficient Routing
The following two examples show problems that you can avoid by carefully
selecting the placement of Migration Agents in the network.
Example 1
The following figure shows a client installed as IP only in Segment C trying
to communicate with an IPX server in Segment A. The IPX server knows that
the client is part of the virtual CMD network and that Routers 1 and 2 present
equally efficient paths to the CMD network server (the Migration Agent
servers present the CMD network route to the routers attached to their network
segment).
Under this scenario, Server A might choose to route packets to Client A
through Router 1, resulting in the packets following the inefficient path shown
by the broken line in the figure.
Figure 12 Sample Network Setup for Example 1
Router 1
IPX
Server A
Migration
Agent 1
Migration
Agent 2
Segment A
IP only
Client A
Router 2
Segment B Segment C