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5. General TCP/IP and Networking options.

5.1 IP Tunneling (ipip.o and new_tunnel.o).

Tunneling means encapsulating data of one protocol type within another protocol and sending it over a channel that understands the encapsulating protocol. Two modules are necessary ipip.o, IP/IP protocol decoder, and new_tunnel.o driver, (this was previously called tunnel.o and the documentation still refers to this name). Documentation is found at /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/README.tunnel.


Load commands:
        /sbin/modprobe ipip.o
        /sbin/modprobe new_tunnel.o
        
        No module parameters.

5.2 IP Aliasing support (ip_alias.o).

Sometimes it is useful to give several addresses to a single network interface (= serial port or ethernet card). The most common case is that you want to serve different WWW documents to the outside according to which of your host names they used to connect to you.


Load command:
        /sbin/modprobe ip_alias.o

        No module parameters.

5.3 IP Reverse ARP (rarp.o).


Load command:
        /sbin/modprobe rarp.o

        No module parameters.

5.4 IPX Protocol (ipx.o).

This is support for the Novell networking protocol, IPX, commonly used for local networks of DOS and Windows machines.

IPX protocol is required if :

Homesite for ncpfs is ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs, but sunsite and its many mirrors will have it as well.

Linware's home site is klokan.sh.cvut.cz/pub/linux/linware,

nwserv package Mars_nwe is also on ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs.


Load command:
        /sbin/modprobe ipx.o

        No module parameters.

5.5 Appletalk DDP (appletalk.o).

Appletalk is the way Apple computers speak to each other on a network. EtherTalk is the name used for appletalk over ethernet and Localtalk is appletalk over the apple serial links.


Load command:
        /sbin/modprobe appletalk.o

        No module parameters.


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