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1#
2# IPX configuration
3#
4config IPX
5    tristate "The IPX protocol"
6    select LLC
7    ---help---
8      This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly
9      used for local networks of Windows machines. You need it if you
10      want to access Novell NetWare file or print servers using the Linux
11      Novell client ncpfs (available from
12      <ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/ncpfs/>) or from
13      within the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO,
14      available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>). In order
15      to do the former, you'll also have to say Y to "NCP file system
16      support", below.
17
18      IPX is similar in scope to IP, while SPX, which runs on top of IPX,
19      is similar to TCP.
20
21      To turn your Linux box into a fully featured NetWare file server and
22      IPX router, say Y here and fetch either lwared from
23      <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/daemons/> or
24      mars_nwe from <ftp://www.compu-art.de/mars_nwe/>. For more
25      information, read the IPX-HOWTO available from
26      <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
27
28      The IPX driver would enlarge your kernel by about 16 KB. To compile
29      this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ipx.
30      Unless you want to integrate your Linux box with a local Novell
31      network, say N.
32
33config IPX_INTERN
34    bool "IPX: Full internal IPX network"
35    depends on IPX
36    ---help---
37      Every IPX network has an address that identifies it. Sometimes it is
38      useful to give an IPX "network" address to your Linux box as well
39      (for example if your box is acting as a file server for different
40      IPX networks: it will then be accessible from everywhere using the
41      same address). The way this is done is to create a virtual internal
42      "network" inside your box and to assign an IPX address to this
43      network. Say Y here if you want to do this; read the IPX-HOWTO at
44      <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> for details.
45
46      The full internal IPX network enables you to allocate sockets on
47      different virtual nodes of the internal network. This is done by
48      evaluating the field sipx_node of the socket address given to the
49      bind call. So applications should always initialize the node field
50      to 0 when binding a socket on the primary network. In this case the
51      socket is assigned the default node that has been given to the
52      kernel when the internal network was created. By enabling the full
53      internal IPX network the cross-forwarding of packets targeted at
54      'special' sockets to sockets listening on the primary network is
55      disabled. This might break existing applications, especially RIP/SAP
56      daemons. A RIP/SAP daemon that works well with the full internal net
57      can be found on <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs/>.
58
59      If you don't know what you are doing, say N.
60
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