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Illegal Command: IPXNET.

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First post, by lhunath

Posted on 2005-08-20, 18:39

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My issue is as follows:

I run Dosbox on Linux (Gentoo). I attempted to accomplish running games in IPX networking mode, with no success. I tried versions 58, 63, and now cvs. And yes, I do have ipx=true in the config..

Let me clearify myself:
I run dosbox, mount my c, and type ipxnet help, as documented. Appearantly, this is not a built-in command, because dosbox returns "Illegal Command". 'ipx' returns "true". HELP mentions no IPXNET commands.

Anybody who can enlighten the problem and assist in resolving it?
Thanks,
Lhunath

Ps./ Does the fact that Linux doesn't allow binding to ports < 1024 cause difficulities connecting between dosbox' on windows and linux hosts?

Reply 1 of 4, by Qbix

Posted on 2005-08-20, 18:42

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uhm ipxnet resides on z:\

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Reply 2 of 4, by lhunath

Posted on 2005-08-20, 18:50

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Goodness gracious. Ok, thanks. (Built-in huh? 😉)
How about my second question?

Reply 3 of 4, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2005-08-20, 20:08

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Maybe it would be wise to change the default port to something > 1023 (-> 2644?, it's also about IPX tunneling) so linux people don't run into this.

You can run "ipxnet startserver <number>" and
"ipxnet connect <number>" on the other computer. Number must be the same. Should be platform independent.