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# IPX configuration
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config IPX
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        tristate "The IPX protocol"
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        select LLC
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        ---help---
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          This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly
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          used for local networks of Windows machines.  You need it if you
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          want to access Novell NetWare file or print servers using the Linux
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          Novell client ncpfs (available from
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          ) or from
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          within the Linux DOS emulator DOSEMU (read the DOSEMU-HOWTO,
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          available from ).  In order
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          to do the former, you'll also have to say Y to "NCP file system
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          support", below.
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          IPX is similar in scope to IP, while SPX, which runs on top of IPX,
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          is similar to TCP.
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          To turn your Linux box into a fully featured NetWare file server and
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          IPX router, say Y here and fetch either lwared from
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           or
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          mars_nwe from . For more
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          information, read the IPX-HOWTO available from
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          .
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          The IPX driver would enlarge your kernel by about 16 KB. To compile
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          this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ipx.
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          Unless you want to integrate your Linux box with a local Novell
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          network, say N.
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config IPX_INTERN
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        bool "IPX: Full internal IPX network"
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        depends on IPX
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        ---help---
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          Every IPX network has an address that identifies it. Sometimes it is
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          useful to give an IPX "network" address to your Linux box as well
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          (for example if your box is acting as a file server for different
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          IPX networks: it will then be accessible from everywhere using the
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          same address). The way this is done is to create a virtual internal
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          "network" inside your box and to assign an IPX address to this
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          network. Say Y here if you want to do this; read the IPX-HOWTO at
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           for details.
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          The full internal IPX network enables you to allocate sockets on
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          different virtual nodes of the internal network. This is done by
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          evaluating the field sipx_node of the socket address given to the
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          bind call. So applications should always initialize the node field
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          to 0 when binding a socket on the primary network. In this case the
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          socket is assigned the default node that has been given to the
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          kernel when the internal network was created. By enabling the full
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          internal IPX network the cross-forwarding of packets targeted at
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          'special' sockets to sockets listening on the primary network is
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          disabled. This might break existing applications, especially RIP/SAP
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          daemons. A RIP/SAP daemon that works well with the full internal net
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          can be found on .
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          If you don't know what you are doing, say N.
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