System information

Troubleshooting Novell IPX

Book Title

8-150

IPX RIP: No Connectivity over IPX RIP Router

Symptom: IPX RIP routers are blocking connections. Clients cannot connect to servers over one or

more routers running IPX RIP.

Note Procedures for troubleshooting connectivity problems not speciﬁc to IPX RIP routing are

described in the section “Novell IPX: Client Cannot Connect to Server on Remote LAN” earlier in

this chapter.

Table 8-6 outlines the problems that might cause this symptom and describes solutions to those

problems.

Table 8-6 IPX RIP: No Connectivity over IPX RIP Router

Possible Problem Solution

IPX RIP routing not conﬁgured

o0r misconﬁgured on the router

Step 1 Use the show running-conﬁg privileged exec command to view the

router conﬁguration.

Step 2 Check the conﬁguration to make sure there is an ipx routing global

conﬁguration command entry. If there is not, enter the ipx routing

command to enable IPX routing.

Issuing the ipx routing command on a router automatically enables IPX

RIP routing on all interfaces that have a network number assigned to

them.

Missing ipx network

commands on interface

Step 1 Use the show ipx interface privileged exec command to view the state of

all IPX interfaces.

Step 2 If the output indicates that there are no interfaces running IPX, or if an

interface that should be running IPX is not, you must conﬁgure the

appropriate interfaces with an IPX address. The Novell server

administrator can provide the IPX network number for the segment to

which your router is attached.