From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Organization: CC CTU Prague
To: info <5740@mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:59:58 MET-1
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Subject: Re: 2.4.3 compile error No 3
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, John Jasen <jjasen@datafoundation.com>
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On 11 Apr 01 at 20:34, info wrote:
>  ??, 12 ??? 2001, ? ˤ?-?++++ +- ?+-? "Re: 2.4.3 compile error No 3", Petr Vandrovec +-?+?-|:
> > On 11 Apr 01 at 20:15, info wrote:

> > 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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