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