Date: 07 May 1999 14:20:38 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX Message-ID: <rd66764eo7d.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: Ilia Chipitsine's message of Fri, 7 May 1999 23:06:14 %2B0600 (ESS) References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905072304210.10535-100000@jane.cgu.chel.su>
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Ilia Chipitsine <ilia@cgilh.chel.su> writes: > If you will try to remove libipx*** - You will see that > ifconfig (what else ?) requires them. libipx doesn't qualify as "IPX support." It contains functions for interpreting ipx addresses, but not for doing anything with them. It takes a total of 5k. The actual IPX protocol code is not installed unless you explicitly add it to your kernel. [In theory, you could remove the IPX-related code from ifconfig, but there are a couple of reasons for not doing so. First, because there are useful things -- like tunneling -- that you can do with IPX addresses even without the protocol code. Second, because the potential gain from doing so is so small as to not be worth the effort.] Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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