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