HP 200 Series Services And Applications page 149

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Control
Destination Network Number
Destination Network
Address
Source Network
Address
NetWare Core Protocol packet
Figure 1. IPX Packet
Planning for an IPX internetwork involves assigning a unique host address to
each end node and router, and assigning a unique network number to each
LAN and WAN link. Socket numbers are not planned, but are dynamically
built into the IPX packet header by the IPX protocol before the packet is
sent to the data-link layer.
IPX host addresses are 48-bit numbers (12 hexadecimal digits). For many
IPX nodes, as well as HP routers, the station address (also called MAC or
physical address) of the device is used as the host address. This ensures
uniqueness and is one less parameter to configure. For the HP routers you
do not specify an IPX host address; the station address of WAN port 1 will be
used (except for operating system versions earlier than 5.70).
Novell IPX Routing Service
General Addressing Considerations
Destination Host Number
Destination Socket Number
Source Network Number
Source Host Number
Source Socket Number
(0 to 546 octets)
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Header
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