IPX RIP Broadcasts?

[l Thomas l]

I disabled NetBIOS. Why would they keep coming out?

And also can someone please tell me about them? I don't know much about them.

 

[l Thomas l]

Oops. I should have posted it under Networking. I didn't see that section.

 

[spidey07]

You'll see that from any computer that is running IPX.

also, that is IPX's routing protocol. It is used by routers and hosts to find routes. It is broadcast based at layer 2 and layer3. IPX doesn't understand or have a default gateway so hosts just broadcast "how do I get to this address?" and a router that has a route responds or a host that has that address responds.

 

[ScottMac]

Keep coming out of what?

IPX is Novell's old protocol. If you have any old print servers (think HP Lasers with Ethernet interfaces), that's your most likely source.

Other possibilities: Fax servers, older Microsoft servers (~NT, early Win2K) set up by n00bs.

Aside from being a little verbose, it shouldn't hurt anything.

If anything netbios would ride on top of IPX (Novell's Netbios was better than IBM's for most stuff, and you could shut it down without killing the stack) much like it can ride on top of IP now.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[l Thomas l]

^ In Observer you can see IPX RIP broadcasts.

I don't have any print servers or any kind of servers on my computer. I used to use IIS Admin, but I turned it off, and now I just use Xampp, even though I barely run it, and the IPX broadcasts come out when I'm not running Xampp.


What are the downsides to turning off IPX? I do play games online, though I haven't in a while.

 

[Nothinman]

IPX doesn't won't over the Internet so it has no bearing at all on your online play. Why do you have the protocol installed at all?