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Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager
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IPX Ping
When you issue an Internet Packet Exchange Protocol (IPX) ping, 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, the device responds if it can be reached, and Site
Manager displays the response or the result of the request.
IPX configuration request packets are typically used to get configuration
information from other devices on a NetWare network. However, the router only
uses these packets to test the reachability of a remote device that listens for and
responds to IPX configuration request packets.
The IPX router will not send or acknowledge IPX configuration request packets
addressed to
• Network 0x00000000 (local network destination) or network 0xFFFFFFFF
• Host 0x000000000000 or host 0xFFFFFFFFFFFF (broadcast host
destination)
The IPX router will only respond to request packets sent directly to one of its
interface addresses. 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.
Note: The IPX router will respond (reply with a ping response) to any ping
packet that comes in on socket number 9086 and that has a type field of 0.