CCNA - ???? IPX/Hex

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???? IPX/Hex

djmaplethorpe

2003-03-14, 2:19 pm

I am sooooo confused I don't know what to do. I have seen Hex done so many differnet ways I don't know any of em now. I'm trying to work with IPX and understand how they com up with the 10 bytes and all the coversions.

does someone have any good links or have a easier way to doing and understanding Hex? I have binary down pretty well, and I think I can do the binary to hex conversion okay.

anyway, I'm rambling, can some one help?

davidbeecken

2003-03-14, 7:34 pm

I wrote somethin on it, www.ciscotrack.com/hex.html

Imran4sin

2003-03-17, 6:21 am

hey dude..
its not so difficult.

Chck this out.
there are following in hex:
a,b,c,d,e,f,

HEX : DEC : Binary
a 10 1010
b 11 1011
c 12 1100
d 13 1101
e 14 1110
f 15 1111

IPX = NETWORK + NODE
so simply take the network address and then shove the Node(MAC) address at the end ..and viola you get an IPX address.

hope ths helps.

djmaplethorpe

2003-03-17, 10:42 am

quote:
Originally posted by davidbeecken
I wrote somethin on it, www.ciscotrack.com/hex.html

david, thanks for that, but maybe you can expound on the IPX address and give an example. the problem I am having is seeing the entire address in it's 80 bits and whether this includes the host portion or not. Hope I am making sense.

TIA

Imran4sin

2003-03-17, 3:14 pm

ok..
first 32 bits = Network address
secnd 48 bits = Node (MAC)

e.g.

Network 00000200 is written as 200
(dont ask me Y ..but this is how it works)

Network 00000000 would be 0

Now with the
network address=200
and
node address = 0000.c001.abcd
(this can be directly copied from NIC)

we get the end IPX = 200.0000.c0001.abcd

Do yoiu get it now..
Hope this helps
later.

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