On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hello All!
> On modifying my options on the
> PPP service to work with my raggedy
> old 24K intermittent phone lines.
> I've set my MTU, and MRU to 296
> to minimize the packet fragmentation.
> (I hope) I ran across the "noipx" command
> an wondered what "IPX" stood for, do I
> need it? And why should I care?? Every
> single packet is precious and I need every
> clock cycle I can latch on to!
>
IPX refers to the old Novell-type networks which ran on
IPX. Internet ONLY uses TCP/IP. You should be fairly safe
in disabling IPX entirely on your system, provided of
course, that you don't have to connect to a Novell server.
:-)
John
