Fair enough, my question was pretty vague. Does anyone know of any
tutorials that teach more about IPX? I know nothing about it, so
something that can teach me how addressing and network layout works as a
start would be good. Bill has mentioned different protocols, so perhaps
there is a layer system like TCP/IP? I have been doing a bit of google
searching, so far nothing has popped out as an outstanding resource. I
suppose I will have to talk to the originator of the system I wish to
interface to, and see what IPX protocols he is using. Then I guess I can
tailor my research further. In the meantime, any tutorials or
information would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Josh
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William Chops Westfield wrote:
> Saying you want to implement "IPX" is a bit like saying you want to
> implement "Internet"...  It's a catch phrase that covers quite a few
> protocols that do very different things.  File sharing/etc is quite
> different than the stream-mode protocols used for dialout servers,
> and so on.  It'd be pretty easy to have a PIC implement (for instance)
> the IPX "Service advertisement" protocol (and cheat by sending data
> disguised as a service name, or something like that), and a lot more
> work to implement one of the higher level protocols.

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