Novell IPX

The effects of implementing Novell IPX are as follows:

• More traffic would be generated since there are SAP updates and other rip updates. It is recommended that rip updates are increased in bytes to accommodate more data and lower the update interval to lessen the traffic generated. GNS traffics also increases as more workstations increase.
• IPX can’t be routed to the internet hence it should be tunneled to IP and create more overhead.

Addressing Scheme of the workstations would be IP subnet address converted to hex that would serve as the network address. The MAC address would serve as the host address. Example subnet address is 160.56.3.0 would be A0380300. for the routers interfaces, the design is 3 routers A,B, & C, the connected interfaces have the same network address, for example s0 of A and s1 of B is connected the network address is A0B1 or B1A0. Ethernet sub-interfaces would be used since IPX does not support IP subnetting. Ethernet interfaces would have a maximum of 15 sub-interfaces. The network would only be implementing Ethernet sap or Ethernet 802.2 frame encapsulation to operate in NetWare version 3.12 or later.

Configuration changes:

• IPX routing must be enabled
• New address must be assigned to appropriate interfaces and subinterfaces.
• Maximum paths must be specified to load share
• Encapsulation type must be set to Ethernet sap
• Novell Rip must be activated