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diff --git a/net/ipx/Kconfig b/net/ipx/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a16237c0e783 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/ipx/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +# +# 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. + |
