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From: "mark reed" <marst96+@pitt.edu>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: IPX (with JonIPX)
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:13:27 -0400
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whats the diff from DOSIPX and JonIPX??
do you have to download them? where do you get them?
thanks
Mark

>As I understand it, one must do alot of initiations before using IPX:
>
>Initiate the driver.
>Open a socket.
>Set up an ECB.
>Set up an IPX-header.
>aso.
>
>Can anyone tell me how to or where to find information about this?
>I want somthing that is very detailed and have all specifications of
>this.
>(Preferably for JonIPX but I'm glad for any help, maybe there is a rfc
>for IPX?(or am I way out there?)...)
>
>I looked at:
>http://descent2.com/ddn/ipx/index.html
>and tried to follow this "tutorial" (using JonIPX instead of DOSIPX as
>on that page) but I didn't manage to send anything.
>The code compiled fine but there was some errors in sending the
>packets(Physical error and Malformed packet) so I guess I didn't manage
>to initiate the ECB correctly...
>I belive it was some thing with the FragmentDesriptor(see Table 1 on the
>url described above).
>As I understand it FragmentDescriptor[0] points to the IPX header but
>where is the rest of the array pointing?
>
>
>Thanx for anything that can help me!
>
>