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Troubleshooting Novell IPX 8-157

IPX Enhanced IGRP: No Connectivity over IPX Enhanced IGRP Router

Symptom: IPX Enhanced IGRP routers are blocking connections. Clients cannot connect to servers

over one or more routers running IPX Enhanced IGRP.

Note Procedures for troubleshooting connectivity problems not speciﬁc to IPX Enhanced IGRP

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

earlier in this chapter.

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

problems.

Table 8-8 IPX Enhanced IGRP: No Connectivity over IPX Enhanced IGRP Router

Possible Problem Solution

IPX Enhanced IGRP is

not conﬁgured or is

misconﬁgured on the router

Unlike IPX RIP, IPX Enhanced IGRP is not enabled by default on all interfaces

when the ipx routing global conﬁguration command is issued.

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. This command enables IPX routing

globally.

Step 3 If the command is not present, use the ipx routing global conﬁguration

command to enable IPX routing. The following is the syntax for the ipx

routing command:

ipx routing [node]

Syntax Description:

• node—(Optional) Node number of the router. This is a 48-bit value

represented by a dotted triplet of four-digit hexadecimal numbers

(xxxx.xxxx.xxxx). It must not be a multicast address.

If you omit node, the router uses the hardware MAC address currently

assigned to it as its node address. This is the MAC address of the ﬁrst

Ethernet, Token Ring, or FDDI interface card. If no satisfactory interfaces

are present in the router (for example, there are only serial interfaces),

you must specify node.