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Bind

The “Bind” parameter is used to specify the logical board to which the IPX protocol should bind. If this parameter is not given, then IPX binds with the first logical board that uses an IPX-supported frame type. Because IPX is supported by nearly all frame types on nearly all types of networks, the main reason to use this parameter would be to distinguish among multiple logical boards. The following table indicates all of the frame types supported by the IPX protocol stack for Ethernet and token-ring networks:

Ethernet
Ethernet_802.2
Ethernet_802.3
Ethernet_II
Ethernet_SNAP
Token-Ring
Token-Ring
Token-Ring_SNAP

Selecting which logical board to bind to is a matter of identifying the particular board instance and frame type to be used with IPX and determining the resulting logical board number. If, for example, logical board number 2 was the desired logical board, then the “Bind” parameter would be given as follows:

Bind 2

The 16-bit implementation of the IPX protocol stack (IPXODI.COM) allows only one binding between IPX and a logical board, regardless of how many logical boards are available. (The 32-bit implementation of Novell's IPX protocol stack does not have this limitation.) Therefore, any system having more than one logical board should use the “Bind” parameter to make the IPX binding clear. Conversely, any system having only one logical board does not need the “Bind” parameter at all.