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  1. #
  2. # IPX configuration
  3. #
  4. config IPX_INTERN
  5. bool "IPX: Full internal IPX network"
  6. depends on IPX
  7. ---help---
  8. Every IPX network has an address that identifies it. Sometimes it is
  9. useful to give an IPX "network" address to your Linux box as well
  10. (for example if your box is acting as a file server for different
  11. IPX networks: it will then be accessible from everywhere using the
  12. same address). The way this is done is to create a virtual internal
  13. "network" inside your box and to assign an IPX address to this
  14. network. Say Y here if you want to do this; read the IPX-HOWTO at
  15. <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> for details.
  16. The full internal IPX network enables you to allocate sockets on
  17. different virtual nodes of the internal network. This is done by
  18. evaluating the field sipx_node of the socket address given to the
  19. bind call. So applications should always initialize the node field
  20. to 0 when binding a socket on the primary network. In this case the
  21. socket is assigned the default node that has been given to the
  22. kernel when the internal network was created. By enabling the full
  23. internal IPX network the cross-forwarding of packets targeted at
  24. 'special' sockets to sockets listening on the primary network is
  25. disabled. This might break existing applications, especially RIP/SAP
  26. daemons. A RIP/SAP daemon that works well with the full internal net
  27. can be found on <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs/>.
  28. If you don't know what you are doing, say N.