December 2000
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 29m
English
Many applications in the NetWare environment use the Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) request services from IPX servers. These services include session establishment and termination and information transfer.
On a NetWare client, a NetBIOS application using IPX broadcasts type 20 propagation packets to all IPX networks to get information about named nodes on the network. NetBIOS uses named nodes for resources on the network. To communicate with these resources, NetWare clients need to map these named nodes to IPX addresses.
NetBIOS uses an IPX mechanism to map named nodes to IPX address. As you have seen throughout this book, Cisco routers block all network layer broadcast packets by default, ...
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