1791: TCP And UDP Over IPX Networks With Fixed Path

Most of network applications run on some sort of transports. And, if one is to let such applications to run over a foreign network protocol, the simplest way would be to allow the applications' transports to run over that network protocol. For TCP/IP applications, that transport is TCP or UDP. Hence, to let TCP/IP applications run over IPX, we would need to have TCP and UDP run over IPX. And, once TCP and UDP are allowed to run over IPX, all TCP and UDP based applications, such as HTTP for WWW, or NFS, can easily be made to work over IPX networks.