> > Without sysctl you cannot disable Netbios propagation packet routing.
> > And no machine with enabled Netbios routing passes our 'you must not
> > participate in broadcast storms' test if it has enabled more than
> > one IPX frame on each interface. So you'll get disconnected from our
> > university net.
>
> My user's mind was: if sysctl is needed for ipx, then:
> 1-st variant - to modify config script in such manner that sysctl
> turned on automatically (maybe as other needable functions, if they
> are) if ipx selected.
> 2-nd variant - to modify it in such manner that you can't select ipx
> before you select sysctl
You can use IPX without this sysctl in small networks. But in large
network sooner or later net admin comes to you with baseball bat.
Patch I sent to you fixes compilation troubles.
Petr Vandrovec
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