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#
# 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.
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1da177e4 LT	1	#
	2	# IPX configuration
	3	#
6a2e9b73 SR	4	config 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,
ff49f26b	19	is similar to TCP.
6a2e9b73 SR	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
6a2e9b73 SR	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
1da177e4 LT	33	config 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.
	60