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IPX address format

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First post, by Nicknine

Posted on 2020-03-06, 16:16

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According to a comment in the code, DosBox is supposed to generate virtual IPX addresses in accordance with RFC 1234 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1234.html), where the first two octets in host number are zeroes and the last four hold user's IP address. However, DosBox's behavior is different: the first four octets hold user's IP address and the last two hold user's source port (which is random). Is this the intended behavior?

Reply 1 of 1, by Nicknine

Posted on 2020-03-06, 17:03

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I've examined the code further and it looks like it's required, otherwise IPX Tunneling Server would not function with multiple DosBox instances running on the same host.

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