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The IPX support in the Linux kernel has two modes of operation:

With and without the full internal IPX network. For all normal

operations, you do not need the full internal IPX network.

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.gwdg.de:/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.

If you want the full internal network, please uncomment the correspondig

#define in line 19 of include/net/ipx.h