Can i say this is a kind of routing protocol running on WAN switch ?
Is it a proprietary protocol on Cisco IPX/BPX ?

>From: Pamela Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Pamela Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: IP Relay in IPX/IGX
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:22:15 -0500 (EST)
>
>As I recall, it is a method for the switches to relay IP traffic amongst
>themselves, within the "cloud" only, for management purposes such as SNMP
>and telnet sessions.  Each switch gets an IP address so you can telnet to
>it and so it can be managed by the NMS (used to be called StrataView,
>don't know what they call it now--my info is almost 3 years old).
>
>It is a good idea to assign the IP addresses to the switches from among
>one of the private IP networks such as 172.16.0.0, but not one that you're
>using for any other purpose within your organization.  The switches will
>be isolated as far as IP goes, but you don't want the management station
>to get confused about which addresses are where.
>
>HTH
>
>Pamela
>
>
>On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Charles Peter wrote:
>
> > Can anybody tell me more about the IP relay in IPX/IGX switch ?
> > 
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