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 61