Greg Page <greg@caldera.com of Caldera Incorporated has written
a suite of IPX configuration tools and enhanced the Linux IPX kernel support.
The kernel enhancements allow linux to be configured as a fully featured IPX bridge or router. The enhanced IPX support has already been fed back into the mainstream kernel distribution so you will probably already have it.
The network configuration tools provide you with the capability to configure your network devices to support IPX and allow you to configure IPX routing and other facilities under Linux. The Linux IPX network tools are available from: sunsite.unc.edu.
This command is used to manually add, delete or check
ipx capability to an existing network device. Normally the network device
would be an Ethernet device such at eth0. At least one IPX interface
must be designated the primary interface and the -p flag
to this command does this. For example to enable Ethernet device eth0
for IPX capability as the primary IPX interface using the IEEE 802.2 frame type
and IPX network address 39ab0222 you would use:
# ipx_interface add -p eth0 802.2 0x39ab0222
This command enables or disables the automatic setting
of the interface configuration and primary interface settings. The
--auto_interface argument allows you to select whether new network
devices should be automatically configured as IPX devices or not. The
--auto_primary argument allows you to select whether the IPX software
should automatically select a primary interface or not. A typical example
of this commands use would be to enable both automatic interface configuration
and automatic primary interface setting:
# ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on
This command allows you to configure or deconfigure
an internal network address. An internal network address is optional, but when
it is configured it will always be the primary interface. To configure an
IPX network address of ab000000 on IPX node 1
you would use:
# ipx_internal_net add 0xab000000 1
The command allows you to manually modify the IPX routing
table. For example to add a route to IPX network 39ab0222 via
a router with node number 00608CC33C0F on IPX network
39ab0108:
# ipx_route add 0x39ab0222 0x39ab0108 0x00608CC33C0F