Re: SPX Connections

John Storms (jstorms@livingston.com)
Mon, 02 Dec 1996 11:15:44 -0800

If its only working one way then check to make sure that you have rip
enabled on both sides. On your OR/U this would be done by...

set <port> routing on

And then on the other side that you're dialing into you would modify the
user profile to use rip by...

set user <username> routing on

It sounds like that one side is not propogating routing information which
would cause the internal network number (used to advertise all services
offered by the server) to be not seen by other routers.

At 12:31 PM 12/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a PM2ER-10 running 3.3.2 and a OR-U running 3.4.2Lc1.
>
>TCP/ IP route just fine, but I'm having "weird' problems with IPX.
>
>
>My setup looks like this:
>
> serverA -------OR-U ****ISDN**** PM2-ERw/5BRI -----server B
>
>Someone on the side of Server B can login via IPX to serverA. Noone on
>the side of ServerA can login to ServerB, it doesn't even show up. It is
>like IPX is routing only one way.
>
>Second. The people on the side of Server B cannot use SPX to the
>Server A side. No rconsole, print server connections etc.
>
>Here is a sample of ipxroutes on the OR-U:
>
>>show ipxroutes
>Network Gateway Flag Met Ticks Interface
>-------- --------------------- ---- --- ----- ---------
>000000A2 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 2 36 ptp3
>00000004 00000005:00805FCCC96C ND 2 2 ether0
>00000003 00000005:00805FCCC96C ND 2 2 ether0
>00000002 00000005:00805FCCC96C ND 2 2 ether0
>00000001 00000005:00805FCCC96C ND 2 2 ether0
>00000005 00000005:00C005030C36 NL 1 18 ptp3
>02427575 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 2 36 ptp3
>04573378 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 3 20 ptp3
>04573377 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 2 19 ptp3
>954BF5E3 00000005:00805FCCC96C ND 2 2 ether0
>5268CA7F 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 3 20 ptp3
>763B89D8 00000005:00C0050123C7 ND 4 38 ptp3
>
>Everything looks fine to me.
>
>I have called tech support but I've been having a hard time getting
>through. I'm not slamming them, I know they're busy. This problem has
>existed for 2 months, it has never worked right.
>
>If you have any hints, I would appreciate the feedback.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom Bilan
>
>

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