IPX Addressing
An example of an IPX address is 0BAD33CE:0003FE7C06EC. The 0BAD33CE portion represents the IPX address for the network, which is also sometimes referred to as the network number. The part 0003FE7C06EC is the MAC address of the node, which is used for the second part of the address. The node MAC address is derived directly from the MAC address burned on to each network card, but in IPX addressing, it is expressed without the colons (:). In addition to this format, IPX addresses can also be written with each group of four hexadecimal characters separated by colonsfor example, 0000:0007:003C:7F53:04CF. In some cases, any leading 0s on the network address portion are dropped. For example, 00000007 can be expressed simply as 7. The address would then be 7:003C:7F53:04CF.