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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
-