[3980] in linux-net channel archive
RE: docs for IPX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au)
Thu Aug 8 11:16:29 1996
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:11:10 +1000
To: ATPlack@scj.com, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
From: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
ATPlack <ATPlack@scj.com> wrote:
> Try Novell or Xerox
Ahh, there are DNS entries for {www,ftp}.{novel,xerox}.com, so that
might be fruitful.
> The protocol started with the XNS from Xerox and Novell ran with it.
>
> What in particular are you looking for?
> ------------
> From: tony@trishul.sci.gu.edu.au
> I'm just wondering if anyone knows of sites on the net that have good
> docs about the IPX network protocol (web pages or ftp).
>
> (The full IPX protocol is not covered by RFCs, is it? RFC1132 sounded
> promising, but it's not exactly what I was looking for).
I'm wanting to learn about things like how it "wraps" its packets (is
it HDLC based?) and how nodes on the IPX network are addressed.
General stuff like that, so that I've got a better idea about how it
works. (There's a chance that I might end up working on a machine
that's on a Novell network and it would go down well if I knew a bit
more about it - I'm aware that linux is "IPX-aware", which will be
really helpful). I could go out and buy some text books, but surely
this sort of information is on the net somewhere!
Thanks.
Cheers
Tony
