From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 11:21:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FE714EDD for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:20:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (STD1.2/BZS-8-1.0) id OAA00494; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:20:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA13876; Fri, 7 May 1999 14:20:38 -0400 To: Ilia Chipitsine , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 May 1999 14:20:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: Ilia Chipitsine's message of Fri, 7 May 1999 23:06:14 +0600 (ESS) Message-Id: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ilia Chipitsine 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