Technical data

Using Technician Interface Software
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IPX Ping
When you issue the
ping
command for IPX, the router sends an IPX configuration
request packet to the remote IPX address that you specify. If the remote device is
listening on socket number 456h for an IPX configuration request packet, it
responds if it can be reached, and the console displays a message indicating that
the
device is alive or does not respond
.
IPX configuration request packets typically obtain configuration information from
other devices on a NetWare network. The router uses these packets to test the
reachability of a remote device that listens for and responds to IPX configuration
request packets.
If you send a request packet from a router to an IPX interface on that same router,
the router does not send the request packet out onto the line. Instead, the router
sends the packet internally to the specified interface, which then responds
internally.
Enter the following to ping a remote device running IPX:
ping -ipx
<IPX_address> [
-t
<timeout> ] [
-r
<repeat_count> ]
<IPX_address> is the required IPX address, in hexadecimal or decimal notation,
of the remote device.
An IPX address in hexadecimal notation consists of a 4-byte network address and
a 6-byte host address, separated by a period -- for example,
0x0000AB12.0x000000CD1234 (leading zero padding is not required). The 0x
indicates that the address is in hexadecimal notation.
Note:
The router also listens for, and responds to, pings based on the NetWare
Link Service Protocol (NLSP). However, NLSP-based ping is not currently an
option of the
ping -ipx
command on the router.
Note:
The Bay Networks IPX router will neither send nor acknowledge IPX
configuration request packets addressed to network 0x00000000 (local
network destination) or network 0xFFFFFFFF, or host 0x000000000000 or
host 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF (broadcast host destination). The IPX router responds
only to request packets sent directly to one of its interface addresses.