IPX in 2.4.[5-9]

DISCUSSION Alexandre Hautequest 4 participants 6 messages Aug 20, 2001 – Aug 21, 2001

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Alexandre Hautequest

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2001-08-20 21:37 UTC #0 lore raw

Hello all.

What's the actual IPX support in linux? Is it broken since 2.4.7? Or i just need to recompile my tools against a new kernel version -- the old ones was compiled in a 2.4.5 -- with any patch, option, whatever?

hquest@condor:~$ dmesg
(snip)
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.
hquest@condor:~$ /sbin/ifconfig -v eth0    
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1  
          inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
(snip)
hquest@condor:~$ slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
hquest@condor:~$ _

Not flaming anyone, just questioning.

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TIA

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Petr Vandrovec

2001-08-21 00:20 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 19 lines · Alexandre Hautequest

Hello all.
What's the actual IPX support in linux? Is it broken since 2.4.7? Or i just need to recompile my tools against a new kernel version -- the old ones was compiled in a 2.4.5 -- with any patch, option, whatever?
hquest@condor:~$ dmesg
(snip)
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.
hquest@condor:~$ /sbin/ifconfig -v eth0    
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1  
          inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
(snip)
hquest@condor:~$ slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
hquest@condor:~$ _

Quoted 1 line

Not flaming anyone, just questioning.

If you do not have ncpfs-2.2.0.16, but anything newer, or older than 2.2.0.12, then it should work. If it reports 8847, it means that you have misconfigured network (search for 8847 on support.novell.com). You have either no server on 802.2, or you (or admin) disabled Reply To Get Nearest Server on all servers connected to your wire. You must enable it at least on one of them.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]

kees

2001-08-21 12:41 UTC #2 lore raw

Hi Petr,

While slist from 2.2.18 does indeed work with nwserv , nwuserlist does not. it returns:

schoen3:/user2/download/www/ncpfs-2.2.0.18 # util/nwuserlist util/nwuserlist: Unknown server (0x89FC) when initializing

schoen3:/user2/download/www/ncpfs-2.2.0.18 # util/slist

Known NetWare File Servers Network Node Address
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
NW_SCHOEN C0A80A28 000000000001

Kees

Quoted 36 lines · Petr Vandrovec

Quoted 19 lines · Alexandre Hautequest
Hello all.
What's the actual IPX support in linux? Is it broken since 2.4.7? Or i just need to recompile my tools against a new kernel version -- the old ones was compiled in a 2.4.5 -- with any patch, option, whatever?
hquest@condor:~$ dmesg
(snip)
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.
hquest@condor:~$ /sbin/ifconfig -v eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1
          inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
(snip)
hquest@condor:~$ slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
hquest@condor:~$ _
Quoted 1 line
Not flaming anyone, just questioning.
If you do not have ncpfs-2.2.0.16, but anything newer, or older than 2.2.0.12, then it should work. If it reports 8847, it means that you have misconfigured network (search for 8847 on support.novell.com). You have either no server on 802.2, or you (or admin) disabled Reply To Get Nearest Server on all servers connected to your wire. You must enable it at least on one of them.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]
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Petr Vandrovec

2001-08-21 23:10 UTC #3 lore raw

In reply to Petr Vandrovec

Quoted 5 lines · kees

Hi Petr,
While slist from 2.2.18 does indeed work with nwserv , nwuserlist does not. it returns:

Quoted 8 lines

schoen3:/user2/download/www/ncpfs-2.2.0.18 # util/nwuserlist util/nwuserlist: Unknown server (0x89FC) when initializing
schoen3:/user2/download/www/ncpfs-2.2.0.18 # util/slist
Known NetWare File Servers Network Node Address
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
NW_SCHOEN C0A80A28 000000000001

It is by definition that way. 'slist' does not accept user name, and lists all available IPX servers on the network, while all other utilities require some server and user name, and works with specified server only. You can specify default server name and user name in ~/.nwclient file (man 5 nwclient), if you are lazy to type it.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]

P.S.: ncpfs is NOT tested with MarS
P.P.S.: I assume that you did all tests with "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/user2/ download/www/ncpfs-2.2.0.18/lib", otherwise tools used old system libncp anyway.

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

2001-08-21 00:47 UTC #4 lore raw

In reply to Alexandre Hautequest

Em Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:37:05PM -0300, Alexandre Hautequest escreveu:

Quoted 1 line

What's the actual IPX support in linux? Is it broken since 2.4.7? Or i

no, it had bugs before for SMP configs and even for UP in some cases 8)

Quoted 2 lines

just need to recompile my tools against a new kernel version -- the old ones was compiled in a 2.4.5 -- with any patch, option, whatever?

nothing as far as IPX is concerned

Quoted 4 lines

hquest@condor:~$ dmesg
(snip)
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Conectiva, Inc.

you forgot the most important line, the version

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hquest@condor:~$ /sbin/ifconfig -v eth0    
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1  
          inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
(snip)
hquest@condor:~$ slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
hquest@condor:~$ _

Not flaming anyone, just questioning.

I see ;) But Petr, that is the maintainer for ncpfs has already answered, please do what he asks you to do, as the above message is mostly related to ncpfs than to IPX.

If the problem persists and you think that is IPX related, please let me know and I'll take a look, but I haven't received other reports related to what you describe here.

- Arnaldo

Alexandre Hautequest

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2001-08-21 12:02 UTC #5 lore raw

In reply to Alexandre Hautequest

Quoted 6 lines

If you do not have ncpfs-2.2.0.16, but anything newer, or older than 2.2.0.12, then it should work. If it reports 8847, it means that you have misconfigured network (search for 8847 on support.novell.com). You have either no server on 802.2, or you (or admin) disabled Reply To Get Nearest Server on all servers connected to your wire. You must enable it at least on one of them.

Ok, here we goes again ;)

NCPFS is 2.2.0.18. Both mine NW5 (5.01 SP5) servers are in IP and 802.2 IPX network. No one single line was changed in my NW servers since last year, but -- as i wrote before -- the amazing thing is in 2.4.5 works! i just change kernel version... no any other change.

About the support search: Nothing was found with this code number, i'm mantaining telephone contact w/ Novell support ppl here, to ask what this code means -- hope they knows.

IIRC, this error was showed me some time ago, when i was in another subnet, trying to route IPX packets to my servers net, and my router (Linux 2.2.19) was misconfigured -- i was binding primary to a wrong iface, now it works. My station -- just one iface -- who is in the same net/switch/room of the server doesn't. :(

I'm thinking about the module load. It doesn't matter if the module is or not loaded, the error is the same. Look:

root@condor:/home/hquest# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
root@condor:/home/hquest# slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
root@condor:/home/hquest# modprobe ipx
root@condor:/home/hquest# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipx                    19616   0  (unused)
root@condor:/home/hquest# ipx_configure --auto_primary=on --auto_interface=on
root@condor:/home/hquest# /sbin/ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F8:08:BD:A1  
          inet addr:172.16.40.2  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          IPX/Ethernet 802.2 addr:AC100000:0000F808BDA1
(Yes, AC100000 -- 172.16 -- *is* my IPX net)
root@condor:/home/hquest# slist
slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open
root@condor:/home/hquest# _

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