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Help !! 3com Vlan with IP & IPX
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TimRegester
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To clarify that, both 3Com switches will pass IPX traffic at a layer 2 level on the same vlan, the 4900 will not however route between IPX networks. So if you have IPX traffic on different networks or even one IPX network on different vlans the 4900 will not route or indeed bridge the traffic between the VLANs.
The solution would be to have an IPX router or layer 3 switch that supports IPX routing or bridging accross the VLANs.
The 4900 is really the wrong box for the job.
The solution would be to have an IPX router or layer 3 switch that supports IPX routing or bridging accross the VLANs.
The 4900 is really the wrong box for the job.
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TimRegester
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There are various switches that did support IPX routing most of these are EOL, there is no s/w upgrade to make the 4900 support IPX. The 4005 was roadmapped to support IPX the 4007 and 4007R do support IPX.
It is an oversight by 3Com but IPX is a dying protocol, since Novell started supporting IP as the client protocol the writing has been on the wall for IPX. Only older Netware servers and legacy apps now require IPX. 3Com in slimming down it's operation especially post Catapult introduce more specialised features in response to demand, hence the support for OSPF on the 49xx series. Even the Huawei sourced 7700 appears not to support IPX routing.
So this probably does not help you. I would suggest getting hold of a second hand 3Com switch that does support IPX (or any other make) and use that to route the IPX leaving the 4900 to route IP or move to an IP client (which is a mine-filled nightmare unless you pick the brains of someone who has done this) or look at having a nic in each vlan per server and different network numbers. (btw this latter course was sooo much easier with ATM LANE)
It is an oversight by 3Com but IPX is a dying protocol, since Novell started supporting IP as the client protocol the writing has been on the wall for IPX. Only older Netware servers and legacy apps now require IPX. 3Com in slimming down it's operation especially post Catapult introduce more specialised features in response to demand, hence the support for OSPF on the 49xx series. Even the Huawei sourced 7700 appears not to support IPX routing.
So this probably does not help you. I would suggest getting hold of a second hand 3Com switch that does support IPX (or any other make) and use that to route the IPX leaving the 4900 to route IP or move to an IP client (which is a mine-filled nightmare unless you pick the brains of someone who has done this) or look at having a nic in each vlan per server and different network numbers. (btw this latter course was sooo much easier with ATM LANE)
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layer3booster
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7700 and 7700R will have an update firmware to support IPX routing this coming April or May 2004.
(There is a solution though, which I'm doing as well: add a vlan port member to each existing vlan then join them into one Novell Netware server, or IPX routing enabled router / PC router.
(There is a solution though, which I'm doing as well: add a vlan port member to each existing vlan then join them into one Novell Netware server, or IPX routing enabled router / PC router.
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