| # |
| # IPX configuration |
| # |
| config IPX |
| tristate "The IPX protocol" |
| select LLC |
| help |
| This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly |
| used for local networks of Windows machines. You need it if you |
| want to access Novell NetWare file or print servers using the Linux |
| Novell client ncpfs (available from |
| <ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/linux/ncpfs/>) or from |
| within the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO, |
| available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>). In order |
| to do the former, you'll also have to say Y to "NCP file system |
| support", below. |
| |
| IPX is similar in scope to IP, while SPX, which runs on top of IPX, |
| is similar to TCP. |
| |
| To turn your Linux box into a fully featured NetWare file server and |
| IPX router, say Y here and fetch either lwared from |
| <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/daemons/> or |
| mars_nwe from <ftp://www.compu-art.de/mars_nwe/>. For more |
| information, read the IPX-HOWTO available from |
| <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| |
| The IPX driver would enlarge your kernel by about 16 KB. To compile |
| this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ipx. |
| Unless you want to integrate your Linux box with a local Novell |
| network, say N. |
| |
| config IPX_INTERN |
| bool "IPX: Full internal IPX network" |
| depends on IPX |
| help |
| Every IPX network has an address that identifies it. Sometimes it is |
| useful to give an IPX "network" address to your Linux box as well |
| (for example if your box is acting as a file server for different |
| IPX networks: it will then be accessible from everywhere using the |
| same address). The way this is done is to create a virtual internal |
| "network" inside your box and to assign an IPX address to this |
| network. Say Y here if you want to do this; read the IPX-HOWTO at |
| <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> for details. |
| |
| The full internal IPX network enables you to allocate sockets on |
| different virtual nodes of the internal network. This is done by |
| evaluating the field sipx_node of the socket address given to the |
| bind call. So applications should always initialize the node field |
| to 0 when binding a socket on the primary network. In this case the |
| socket is assigned the default node that has been given to the |
| kernel when the internal network was created. By enabling the full |
| internal IPX network the cross-forwarding of packets targeted at |
| 'special' sockets to sockets listening on the primary network is |
| disabled. This might break existing applications, especially RIP/SAP |
| daemons. A RIP/SAP daemon that works well with the full internal net |
| can be found on <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs/>. |
| |
| If you don't know what you are doing, say N. |
| |
| config IPX_P8023_RAW |
| bool "Raw IEEE 802.3 frame header support for IPX" |
| depends on IPX |
| default y |
| help |
| Some legacy IPX systems use an ethernet frame format that contain |
| only the IEEE 802.3 header without a LLC (IEEE 802.2) header; this |
| frame format isn't being used anywhere outside IPX. |
| |
| Say N if none of your IPX networks use this frame format. |
| |