The Washington School District has approved plans to place a workgroup
server in each school for purposes unknown. This server will be located
within
one of the wiring closets, either the MDF or the IDF. It will
also run Novell Netware, so it will use IPX instead of TCP/IP.
Since these hosts are running on the curriculum network, IPX will have to be established on router interface Ethernet 0, the interface connected to the
curriculum network. Since IPX uses a host's MAC address as its IPX logical address, it will only be necessary to configure a network number on the interface.
That number, for simplicity, will be 0000 0100. To enable IPX
on the router, enter the command ipx routing.
Next, IPX routing must be configured on the Ethernet 0 interface. To do this, enter interface configuration mode with the interface e0 command. From
here, it is necessary to specify an encapsulation type that is compatible with the encapsulation used by the Netware servers in the classrooms. Since the Netware
run on this server is later than version 3.11, it'll be using Ethernet_802.2 encapsulation. On the router, issue the encapsulation sap command. Finally, enter the
command ipx network 00000100 to create the IPX network
on which the server will run.
After all this, IPX routing should be enabled, and the workgroup server in the wiring closet should be capable of communicating with the users on the
curriculum LAN.