User Guide

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August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Figure 11 Turning Off IPX Packet Forwarding on a NetWare File Server
You should turn off IPX packet forwarding if you do not want the server to
forward IPX packets between its interfaces.
For more information about IPX routing and related topics, refer to Chapter 1,
“Understanding,” on page 11. For more information about NetWare file and
print services, refer to your NetWare documentation.
How to Turn Off IPX Packet Forwarding
Before you begin, you must have at least two NetWare servers, or one
NetWare server and a dedicated router on the same IPX network.
To turn off IPX packet forwarding, complete the following steps:
1 Load NIASCFG, then select the following parameter path:
Select Configure NIAS > Protocols and Routing > Protocols > IPX
2 The Packet Forwarding parameter is already highlighted; select it, then
select Disabled .
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