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5.1.2 IPX Startup

John Crisp

5.1.2 IPX Startup
« on: December 11, 2002, 07:00:05 PM »
Hi,

I am trying to get IPX to start automatically on boot. I can do it all manaully and connect without problems. I have read everywhere I can but can't seem to find the answer - would sopmeone poiunt me in the right direction.

I can see that if-up that ip-up checks /etc/sysconfig/network to see if IPX is enabled, which it isn't, but I can't see where to tell the system to enable IPX or add this to the /etc/sysconfig/network file/template.

I have installed ipxutils so that when it checks for it, it's their.

This is from /etc/init.d/network - where can I set these IPX paprameters ?

B. Rgds
John

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)

        action $"Setting network parameters: " sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf

        action $"Bringing up interface lo: " ./ifup ifcfg-lo

        case "$IPX" in
          yes|true)
            /sbin/ipx_configure --auto_primary=$IPXAUTOPRIMARY \
                                   --auto_interface=$IPXAUTOFRAME
            if [ "$IPXINTERNALNETNUM" != "0" ]; then
               /sbin/ipx_internal_net add $IPXINTERNALNETNUM $IPXINTERNALNODENUM
            fi
            ;;
        esac