From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 10:12:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01369D96 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:12:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corebug@corebug.net) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04F18FC12 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id v11so3583002vbm.13 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=gLs/+rPMTk/4bSSYi9369yhwfHoYkdES9vu3K9rOMLs=; b=EhuEz07Gbg3RIKr779MS1Pv+iajPy4J+KiWhfYX+E2WvZNsrho2VDZJIeaM3v30Om4 TITZ8v+GLHOmh0Y9bCh5pw9kVywa4z/YAcQ1I3fXex5EeurqubJWDo7qXHHgYA+ghwTW uj/Fx8g0ILsUsSZGV4NhhQMv+tFhr+p2bU3dHuIwMgQK/syeFCYfOy+VjPV0wQjWWzlE C69sJNQZH04h2eDwtugk01bWalTS3fXe3oWc2x9UuqRmUfgqBLX+0G1U4sI26fcc3vU6 URECPJZCb37FFSk2kYiTRaJ1qaqfvmSSyIIK1Na+5Q611Q6VSeW2nov1BWo6brHynsG/ bhUA== Received: by 10.220.149.206 with SMTP id u14mr2247743vcv.63.1350036718220; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:11:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.249.138 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:11:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [95.158.3.122] In-Reply-To: References: From: =?UTF-8?B?0JLQuNGC0LDQu9C40Lkg0KLRg9GA0L7QstC10YY=?= Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:11:37 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How does freebsd supports ipx? To: YC Wang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkC/e2Q/X57e1HgFtqWHjkjUMqrF5cx82NEI8E5piiH1HOAp9EaKpEDnbSckJ/w1pKoevpi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:12:01 -0000 2012/10/12 YC Wang : > Hi,all: > > I read from wikipedia that freebsd supports ipx. But when I tried > to set ipx address on em0=EF=BC=8Cit showed the following message: > > freebsd-yc# ifconfig em0 ipx (netnum.nodenum) > ifconfig: socket(family 23,SOCK_DGRAM: Protocol not supported > > And as I furher trussed the ifconfig process, I found this was > probably caused by the failure of the socket syscall: > > freebsd-yc# truss ifconfig em0 ipx netnum.nodenum > ...... > socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0) ERR#43 'Protocol not sup= ported' > ...... > > > In contrast however, when calling "socket(PF_IPX,SOCK_DGRAM,0)" on > Linux, it will automatically load the ipx kernel module and the socket > syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in > /boot/kernel/ on freebsd. > > So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work > I should do for this purpose? > > And if this isn't the most appropriate list for this question, > please let me know. > > Thanks > YC Wang > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" I suppose you should add "options IPX" line to your kernel configuration file and rebuild/reinstall the kernel. --=20 ~~~ WBR, Vitaliy Turovets NOC Lead @TV-Net ISP NOC Lead @Service Outsourcing company +38(093)265-70-55 VITU-RIPE X-NCC-RegID: ua.tv