CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide - FTP Server

414 Chapter 8 � Configuring Novell IPX
Show IPX Route
The show ipx route command displays the IPX routing table entries that
the router knows about. The router reports networks to which it is directly
connected, it then reports networks that it has learned of since the router has
come online.
2501A#sh ipx route
Codes: C - Connected primary network, c - Connected
secondary network, S - Static, F - Floating static, L -
Local (internal), W - IPXWAN, R - RIP, E - EIGRP, N -
NLSP, X - External, A - Aggregate, s - seconds, u - uses
6 Total IPX routes. Up to 1 parallel paths and 16 hops
allowed.
No default route known.
C 10 (NOVELL-ETHER), Et0
C 20 (HDLC), Se0
c 10a (sap), Et0
C 10b (ARPA), Et0.10
R 40 [07/01] via 20.00e0.1ea9.c418, 13s, Se0
R 50 [13/02] via 20.00e0.1ea9.c418, 13s, Se0
RouterA#
The small c in the routing table tells you that it is a secondary configured
IPX network.
Load Balancing with IPX
If you were to set up parallel IPX paths between routers, the Cisco IOS will
not learn about these paths by default. The router will learn a single path to
a destination and discard information about alternative, parallel, equal-cost
paths. Notice in the show ipx route output above the phrase Up to 1
parallel paths and 16 hops allowed. To be able to perform a roundrobin
load balance over multiple equal-cost paths, you need to add the command
ipx maximum-paths [#] (with # being any number up to 64); this
will allow the router to accept the possibility that there might be more than
one path to the same destination.
The Cisco IOS will perform per-packet load sharing by default over
these parallel lines. Packets will be sent on a round-robin basis between all