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.