General characteristics of IPX

The following should be taken into consideration before using IPX:

• To enable the use of IPX, the IPX driver must be installed and linked into the kernel of the system you are using. If the IPX driver is not installed, the t_open call fails.

• The NetWare protocol stack daemon (NPSD) must be running. NPSD can be started manually with the ipx start command.

• The device name for IPX is /dev/ipx.

• IPX follows the state diagram for a connectionless service.

• If a signal is sent to the IPX application during a TLI system call, the TLI system call fails with errno set to EINTR.