| # |
| # IPX configuration |
| # |
| 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. |
| |
