IPX direct interface

IPX direct interface

This section describes the ioctl commands used by NetWare^®'s IPX (TM)

driver for the UNIX^® environment. The ioctl calls described in this topic are a subset of TLI/XTI and apply either to the IPX Socket Multiplexer or to the IPX LAN Router.

Sockets direct packets to different processes within a single node. Applications bind sockets and then send and receive data via one of the following programming interfaces:

TLI/XTI for IPX
The Transport Layer Interface (TLI) is more easily ported to other transports. Programming information specific to IPX is provided in ``TLI/XTI for IPX''.
IPX Direct Interface
The direct interface to IPX bypasses some of the overhead involved in portability issues. Only the latter of the two mechanisms is documented in this topic.
- getmsg/putmsg allows an application to transfer data to a process on a per packet basis and leaves no residue.
- ioctl commands allow an application to send and receive parameters that specify directly to IPX how data is to be transferred to processes. All ioctl commands described in this chapter are issued using the STREAMS I_STR ioctl.

For information on the IPX protocol, packet structure, and fields, see ``Internetwork packet exchange (IPX) protocol''.