[K12OSN] ipxripd for CentOS5

[Dan Young]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:
> jones yeates wrote:
>
>> I just upgraded my server to CentOS 5 and I tried to do a yum install
>> ipxripd, which worked in FC and it doesn't work.  It said it had nothing to
>> do and the program isn't installed on my server.
>>
>> Can someone help me out?  I need it to work for the clients to be able to
>> authenticate their users on the Novell server.
>
> There is no ipxripd package in the official CentOS repositories, so that is
> why yum doesn't do anything. I don't know if any third party repository
> carries it, but otherwise you can try rebuilding Fedora's source package on
> CentOS yourself.

The RHEL kernel (and thus the CentOS) kernel doesn't include the ipx
kernel module, so you'd need to install the kernel from the centosplus
repository for the router daemon to do much good.

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