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1 | # |
2 | # IPX configuration |
3 | # |
4 | config 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 | |
33 | config 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 | |
61 |
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