Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Setting up DOS IPX Networking under Vi. IPX (Internetwork Packet Exchange) is an older protocol - originally developed by Novell for Netware networks.
A number of DOS games need to have an IPX peer-to-peer network configured in order to support head-to-head gaming. In order to setup a minimal IPX DOS stack - you will need to download the following files: from Once you have downloaded these files - you will need to unpack them all into a single directory on your DOS virtual machine. You can then load the IPX network stack by running the following commands: These commands need to be loaded in that exact order. N.B. If you want - you can unload the IPX stack by running: In exactly that order. Cheers,Ben. Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Getting the most out of IPX under Virt. During the development of Virtual PC 2004 - our primary focus was to perform a thorough security review of the entire product (After which - I have nothing but respect for the level of commitment that Microsoft now has to shipping secure products).
Unfortunately - some of the changes made as a result of this review did negatively affect some areas of Virtual PC. One area that did get affected by this was the performance of IPX based networking under DOS virtual machines. However, there is a simple solution for this - don't do that :-) Well - for a bit more clarification; most DOS programs can run perfectly well under Windows 95 / Windows 98, and both Windows 95 / Windows 98 supported IPX 'out of the box'. If you have a DOS program that needs IPX networking - and you find the networking performance to be unacceptable - you can resolve this by setting up a Windows 95 virtual machine with IPX enabled.
No IPX/SPX support any more ... ???, in Virtual PC. Novell: IPX - IPX over TCP/IP. I have found problems with getting ipx to work properly with default windows clients.
One solution has been to run an old novell server (2.2 for example) on the network. This seems to get ipx kick started. Linux can do ipx over ppp. Here's some info i found :- IPX routingHere I try to explain more detailed, how IPX routing works. Let some workstation wants to send information to another workstation (server). To find this router, the sending workstation broadcasts a RIP (Routing Information Packet) requesting the fastest route to the destination segment. When the sending workstation knows the router node address, it addresses and sens packets to the destination workstation as follows: The sending workstation places the destination node IPX network address - node, address, socket numbers - in the corresponding destination fields of the IPX header.
The sending workstation places it's own node address in the Source Address field of the MAC header. The sending workstation sends the packet. NWLink IPX/SPX: Network Number vs. Internal Network Number. Network Number You must assign an IPX network number for each frame type configured on each adapter in your computer running Windows NT.
This network number must be unique for each network segment. Thus, all computers on the same segment using a given frame type must use the same network number to communicate with each other. If you do not set such a value for the IPX network number in the registry, the NetworkNumber parameter displays a value of "0", but the number itself will be assigned by Windows NT through autodiscovery. Here are some possible ways of discovering the correct network number to use for a given frame type: Kali.net Online Gaming. IPX/SPX networking on Vista.