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Old 07-20-2005, 02:47 PM   #1
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Question IPX network

my house has 2 computers and me and my brother share the same interest in games. this one game id really like to challenge him on but the game is set on ipx networking and not tcp and that is the only network i know how to do. can anybody help me figure out how to install or create a ipx network

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Old 07-20-2005, 03:06 PM   #2
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see if there is anything here that will help you.
http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm

Short for Internetwork Packet Exchange, a networking protocol used by the Novell NetWare operating systems. Like UDP/IP, IPX is a datagram protocol used for connectionless communications. Higher-level protocols, such as SPX and NCP, are used for additional error recovery services.
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Old 07-20-2005, 03:45 PM   #3
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thank you it does help im just not sure i understand all of what it says, ill study it and see if i can make some sense of it
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im still completely lost, all it was was a faq thing, but it never said how to do it...does anybody know how to do it?
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Old 07-20-2005, 04:13 PM   #5
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If you are on Windows, take a look at this: http://www.mcmcse.com/windows_xp/guides/nwlink.shtml
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Old 07-20-2005, 04:26 PM   #6
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wow. thanks for the web page that helps a lot.
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