Routing IPX - how do I get it to work?

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I've just set up a wireless network - I've got a wireless router (cisco
aironet 1200) in my main office and in the remote office a W2k server with
a wireless card in.

The W2k server runs DHCP and RRAS and is successfully routing TCP/IP.

However, I have a netware server running IPX/SPX in my main office (it is
old and TCP/IP is not an option) and the PCs in the remote office cannot
get access - I have turned on IPX routing in RRAS and even installed the
ASAP agent with no luck. In RRAS the wired LAN card is showing as
"operational state : down" for IPX/SPX.

Does anyone have any idea how to get IPX/SPX client PCs talking to an
IPX/SPX network across this sort of wireless link.

Assistance most appreicated - yes I have considered moving it all to
TCP/IP but that will take some significant work which I plan to do - I am
just hoping for a quick temporary fix.

Thanks
 
Is the IPX/SPX actually installed on the RRAS machine? It will also have to
be installed on every machine that want to communicat with the IPX machine.
IPX/SPX must be installed on evey involved machine, RRAS is a "router", it
is not a Protocol Gateway.
 
I think you also have to set a network number for the IPX/SPX in the
protocol config on each machine. But that is a bit of a guess, I am a little
rusty on my IPX/SPX. The network number can be arbitrarily choosen, but it
is common practice to use the network ID from TCP/IP for this after removing
the dots. For example, the TCP/IP network ID of 192.168.1.0 would be written
as 19216810 for the network ID in IPX/SPX. The RRAS box, I guess, would need
two,...one for each Interface.
 
RRAS and all the machines have IPX/SPX installed.

I cannot see how to define the IPX network number on the interface on the
RRAS server - it has an internal number but I cannot identify how to
tell it the actual network address I want to use (probably because the
server is not actually a netware server). I think that is where I am
stuck - because there is no server on the remote side the clients dion't
wake up and look for netware.
 
Balance said:
I cannot see how to define the IPX network number on the interface on the
RRAS server - it has an internal number but I cannot identify how to
tell it the actual network address I want to use (probably because the
server is not actually a netware server). I think that is where I am
stuck - because there is no server on the remote side the clients dion't
wake up and look for netware.
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It is somewhere in the IPX/SPX Properties on each NIC. I don't have any
here, so I cannot verify where it is. But is it a normal part of the IPX/SPX
configuration,...it has to be there somewhere.
 
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