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Overview

The Exchange (IPX) protocol, is the Novell Inc. adaptation of the Xerox Network System (XNS) protocol.

For more information about the IPX protocol concepts and terminology, see Configuring IPX Routing Operations (Passport 8000 Series Switch Release 3.3.x, "IP Routing concepts."

Implementation of IPX on the 8600 Switch supports the following four Ethernet frame formats:

Frame translations from one frame format to another are supported, but the IPX host format must match the defined protocol frame format of the interface to which the host is connected.

An 8600 Switch supports IPX as routed VLANs, if IPX routing is enabled on the VLAN.

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