2012/10/12 YC Wang <wangyc0...@gmail.com>: > Hi,all: > > I read from wikipedia that freebsd supports ipx. But when I tried > to set ipx address on em0,it 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 > supported' > ...... > > > 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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
I suppose you should add "options IPX" line to your kernel configuration file and rebuild/reinstall the kernel. -- ~~~ 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"