Administering SCO IPX/SPX

Starting and stopping IPX/SPX (ipx)

The script /etc/ipx both starts and stops IPX/SPX and NVT. Although IPX/SPX and NVT are started and stopped automatically, /etc/ipx provides additional control to the system administrator.

To start IPX/SPX and NVT, use the following command line:

/etc/ipx start

The following output is displayed:

   Starting IPX/SPX: npsd sapd nvtd

To restart IPX/SPX and NVT (that is, to stop and then start automatically, and to display detailed information on the status of the startup procedure), use the following command line:

/etc/ipx restart

You should see output similar to the following:

IPX/SPX Shutdown ... IPX/SPX Shutdown Complete. NPSD: Novell Protocol Suite Streams Architecture daemon. NPSD: Configuring Internal Network: 100 NPSD: Configured Internal Network: 100 NPSD: Configuring: LAN 1 00000099 /dev/net0 NPSD: Configured: LAN 1 00000099 /dev/net0 DLPI 802_2_LLI(E0) NONE NOSR

NPSD: Lan Network Node Mux ID State Stream NPSD: --- -------- ------------ -------- ------- ------ NPSD: 0 00000100 000000000001 00000000 UNBOUND OK NPSD: 1 00000099 0000C0E1D26B 0000006E IDLE OK NPSD: Spawning the SAP daemon "/etc/sapd" NPSD: Spawning the NVT daemon "/etc/nvtd" NPSD: Including SPX Version 3.0.1 NOVELL Inc. NPSD: Binding XECHO Stream to socket 0002

To save all of this output to a logfile named logfile, modify the command as shown here:

/etc/ipx restart 2>&1 | tee logfile

To stop IPX/SPX and NVT, use the following command line:

/etc/ipx stop

The following output is displayed:

   IPX/SPX Shutdown ...
   IPX/SPX Shutdown Complete.

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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003