| Jeannie,
On the DECswitch 900EF, you have the capability to enable Raw
IPX translation using HUBwatch or SNMP. This applies to all the ports,
This feature cannot be enabled on a per port basis. Here is the table
for frame translation both directions:
Ethernet to FDDI
Ethernet Frame Rcvd FDDI Frame Sent
Raw IPX Switch (Disabled) Enabled
1. Ethernet 2 FDDI SNAP FDDI SNAP
2. Raw IPX FDDI Raw IPX FDDI SNAP
3. 802.2 FDDI 802.2 FDDI 802.2
FDDI to Ethernet
FDDI Frame Rcvd Ethernet Frame Sent
Raw IPX (Disabled) Enabled
1. FDDI SNAP Ethernet 2 Raw IPX
2. FDDI 802.2 802.2 802.2
So we can handle Raw IPX and 802.2 simultaneously. If the Raw IPX
switch is enabled both Ethernet 2 and Raw IPX get translated to FDDI
SNAP frame, when we receive a FDDI SNAP frame in response, we cannot
distinguish on a per address or even a per port basis as to which were
speaking Ethernet 2 and which were speaking Raw IPX. So we translate
all to Raw IPX. If the Raw IPX switch is not enabled all FDDI SNAP
frames get translated to Ethernet 2. So both Raw IPX and Ethernet 2
cannot coexist on the same switch.
Hope this helps,
Krishna
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| Thanks Krishna
Just to confirm that I understand this:
When an FDDI Raw IPX frame is received, is it converted back to
Ethernet Raw IPX whether or not the "raw IPX" switch is enabled or
disabled?
i.e. if "raw IPX" is disabled, a raw IPX Ethernet host cannot talk to an
FDDI host but can still talk across an FDDI backbone to another raw IPX
Ethernet host?
Thanks
Jeannie
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Yes, Raw IPX will be fine across the two bridges.
If a station on the FDDI is cobbled together to see the raw IPX,
it could talk back, but there are no standard IPX over FDDI
applications
that do this.
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