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52 lines
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This is my version of an IPX RIP/SAP daemon for Linux. For me, it
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works very well with kernel 1.2.13 as well as 1.3.x kernels.
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I hope this will eventually provide a stable, standard RIP/SAP daemon
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for Linux. Currently (February '96) there is no such program that can
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be called a standard one. All programs that I know of either require
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kernel patches, do more than just RIP/SAP (such as mars_nwe), or
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simply do not implement RIP and SAP correctly. Please forgive me if I
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ignored the super ipx-rip/sap daemon I did not find.
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I think this release provides some advantages over the other programs,
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as it does not require a kernel patch, and it works fine when you
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reconfigure your IPX interfaces while ipxd is running. With IPX over
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PPP this should make remote access to IPX networks via Linux very
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convenient.
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Although ipxd does not require a kernel patch, it works fine with the
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full internal network, which can be activated since Linux 1.3.60.
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INSTALLATION
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Simply type 'make' and, as root, 'make install'. This puts the program
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ipxd into /usr/sbin/ and the manpages into /usr/man/man5 and
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/usr/man/man8.
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To start ipxd automatically on system startup, you might want to put
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the following lines somewhere into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
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if [ -f /usr/sbin/ipxd ]; then
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echo "Starting IPX RIP/SAP daemon"
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/usr/sbin/ipxd
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fi
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You might also want to copy the file ipx_ticks to /etc/ and change it
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to reflect your environment.
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NOTES
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In the file ipx.diff there is a patch for 1.3 kernels that provides a
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full internal net with several nodes, but without cross-routing of
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packets to the so-called special sockets on the primary net. Sockets
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bound on the internal net can request any node number they
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like. Currently there's a lot of discussion about this topic on the
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linware mailing list.
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Volker
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<lendecke@namu01.gwdg.de>
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