ELSA Documentation


Routing-table

Routing table for IPX network and remote station assignment. The routing table can hold up to 16 remote stations and destination networks. It contains the following entries:

Remote station Network Binding Propagate Backoff
Name of the IPX remote station Network address 802.3, II, 802.2, SNAP Route/Filter On/Off

The different columns have the following meaning:

O Remote-ID: Name of the logical remote station (as specified in /Setup/WAN module/Name list).
O Network: Address of the network on the WAN side. A standalone network must be used, but it must be same for both of the participating routers!
O Binding: The Ethernet binding to be used on the ISDN route. This setting is taken into account only if Ethernet encapsulation is set in the layer used. If no binding is specified, a value of 802.3 is assumed.
O Propagate: This entry indicates how IPX type-20 packets (NetBIOS propagated frames) are to be handled. The possible settings are Route and Filter. With Filter, no propagated frames are routed to the remote station. If the entry has the value Route, the packets are forwarded to all currently available remote stations, i.e., there must be a connection to the remote station, or there must be at least one channel available for establishing a connection the remote station.
  If no connection or channel is available, the packet is discarded. As a result, the maximum number of remote stations that can receive propagated frames corresponds to the number of possible simultaneous connections. The default setting is 'Filter'.
O Backoff: The IPX router uses a special algorithm (exponential backoff) to keep the connection charges as low as possible in the event of erroneous configurations (see below).
  If there is no server in the remote network (e.g. with remote access from a workstation), the router cannot detect this and the corresponding remote station will be deactivated after a day at the latest. In order to prevent this from happening, the exponential backoff algorithm can be deactivated for these remote stations.
  The default setting is 'On'.

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