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