Choosing Between the IPX Diagnostic Responder and the IPX Ping Utility


Before you decide whether to use the IPX Diagnostic Responder or the IPX Ping utility, you should refer to the list below. For example, suppose that you used the IPX Ping utility to determine if a workstation running Microsoft's Client for NetWare Networks were communicating properly with the network. Because Microsoft's Client for NetWare Networks does not support the IPX Ping utility, you would receive no response from this client software when you ran this utility. You might then mistakenly assume that this lack of response was caused by a communications problem.

 
Product
Responds to IPX Diagnostic
Responder Queries
Responds to IPX Ping Queries
NetWare 2.x server Yes No
NetWare 3.x server Yes No
NetWare 4.0x server Yes No
NetWare 4.1x server Yes Yes
intraNetWare server Yes Yes
NetWare MPR 3.0 and above Yes Yes
Novell's NETX client software Yes No
Novell's VLM client software
(through version 1.22)
Yes No
Novell's 32-bit client software Yes Yes
Microsoft's Client for NetWare Networks Yes No