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# IPX configuration
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#
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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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<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> 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 <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs/>.
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If you don't know what you are doing, say N.
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