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Because of what appeared in the IPX/SPX page to be an inconsistency, I have looked around a little for IPX/SPX information and found some conflicting references. It seems like what we have about NetWare protocols and their corresponding OSI layers is probably wrong. IPX does do port multiplexing itself and so is largely also a layer 4 protocol, and SPX only appears to do a subset of TCP's work, so our comparisons to TCP/IP are misleading if not significantly wrong.
See: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/netwarep.htm
I plan to do more reading but would really appreciate input from someone who knows more. -- Heywood 00:48, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure what your problem with that is. It's the base protocol of IPX/SPX, running directly over the link layer, and as such it's the network layer. SPX runs on it just as TCP runs on IP. However, IPX doesn't need a transport layer running over it; unadorned, it sends datagram packets which can be used without the aid of an additional transport layer. So just as both articles state, it is analagous to both IP and UDP, where SPX is analagous to TCP. There really isn't a dispute here, so I'll remove the tags. Kundor 22:32, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
is there any advantage of IPX over TCP/IP?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Efren ( talk • contribs) 08:24, 24 October 2004 (UTC)
I'm not going to try and take everyone to school so I'm going to tell you where to get the info needed on this. There is a text book called Networking Concepts written by James L. Antonakos and Kenneth C. Mansfield Jr. and, for that reason, I don't want to use their work and get Wikipedia in trouble. But I will say this: they're NOT the same and don't help each other either. IPX/SPX protocol and TCP/IP protocol are different, similar, but different. Comparing them should only be done in the sense of showing their similarities. Any further than that and you're just giving your opinion.
Sorry to upset you but people vote with their feet: note the industry stampede away from ipx and away from SNA, arcnet, NetBIOS, token ring, dlc, et al. Ergo hardware and software vendors stopped supporting it. Unfortunate because Shjacks45 ( talk) 17:26, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Unfortunate because noise resistant token passing networks are more determinate (access within given time) than IP. Important if you have dozens of machines on a factory floor all requiring time sensitive control. Shjacks45 ( talk) 17:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
It turns out there is another meaning for IPX. It's a rating system for levels of waterproofing, related to IEC 60529.
Examples are given at IPX Waterproof Specifications and IEC 60529 Ingress Protection . PeterBrooks 21:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
i agree. i actually got to this page looking for information on the waterproof standard. maybe we don't need a disambiguation page, but one of those one-liners. --21:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
It says the following systems do not support the protocol .... Does that mean that every other os supports the protocol? Needs to be cleared up. Unless it means what it says, that every other system supports IPX Maybe saying the following systems are confirmed as not supporting the protocol. IMBlackMath ( talk) 08:22, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Should the article really reference which layer in the osi model it's in when it shows a box of the tcp/ip model on the right? I don't mind which but i'd prefer to reference and show only ONE. 86.44.153.109 ( talk) 04:53, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
Radia Perlman disagrees in her book "Interconnections":
9.6.2 Ugly Rumors about IPX People believe, for some reason, that IPX is "unroutable", "doesn't work on WANs" or "doesn't scale." IPX is actually a wonderful network layer protocol, better than IP in almost every way (except for little things such as having a hop count that increments rather than decrements). Why do many people believe bad things about it? The answer is that there is a germ of truth in what they are saying, but it has nothing to do with IPX. IPX is, as I said, quite wonderful: it has large addresses, it is autoconfiguring, it is simple to implement, and it requires low overhead. But unfortunately, IPX hangs out with some unsavory company, such as SPX, a protocol just like TCP but with a window size of 1;...... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.13.2 ( talk) 08:38, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
We had a call center with several hundred techs per floor. We were getting network saturation issues and seemed be packet storm from ipx. FYI, the original internet protocol (tests in 1971) was network core protocol, an ipx precursor. Shjacks45 ( talk) 17:15, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
There are at least two EtherType]s assigned to Novel for IPX: 0x8137 and 0x8138. Anyone know which is used and when? -— Kvng 14:34, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
Could it be BigEndian vs LittleEndian? (I too am unable to find any documentation, but I also find no reference for distinguishing the byte order) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ntrcessor ( talk • contribs) 15:11, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
IPX within windows was disallowed by Microsoft Dod in any Microsoft software, due it's use to partition internal data traffic and external internet IP routing. IE: The Dod could NOT enter an internal network purely by using/upsurping domain servers and using IP.
That same for Apples protocole. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.88.226.115 ( talk) 01:31, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
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UC Santa Barbara was involved wit the first internet tests in 1971. XNS based Network Core Protocol was used for the first few tests. Microsoft's MSN in Windows 95 requires ipx in the protocol stack to log in. MSN used unix servers. At the time AOL had Compaq unix servers, but AOL interserver communication was not IP. (Co-wrote knowledge base articles). Early Unix, e.g. Xenix, had ipx as available protocol, but not IP. Doubts? Read "Lions' Commentary on Unix" for Unix v6 source code. Shjacks45 ( talk) 17:05, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
There is a huge overlap with the article IPX/SPX. Perhaps they should be merged and one of them should be deleted. 2001:9E8:E18A:C300:851B:34E2:7BF5:7EB1 ( talk) 12:46, 6 September 2022 (UTC)