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.
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