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Subject: Re: IPXrouted[64]: socket: Protocol not supported
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> What does this syslog message mean?
> 
> It comes from a FreeBSD 2.2 snap Pentium 180 MHz Pro machine.
> 

Well I would guess you trying to use IPX with a kernel without IPX support.
You need to build a kernel with options IPX in the kernel config file.

John
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