I’m trying to understand how Internet Packet Exchange works in networking.
What exactly does “packet exchange” mean on the internet, and how do devices exchange packets between networks?
What is internet packet exchange?
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I’m trying to understand how Internet Packet Exchange works in networking.
What exactly does “packet exchange” mean on the internet, and how do devices exchange packets between networks?
Internet Packet Exchange, or IPX, was an old networking protocol used mostly in older office networks and LAN games. It was created by Novell for NetWare systems. Basically, it helped computers send and receive data with each other over a network.
You can think of it like a delivery system where data is broken into small packets and sent to another computer. Before TCP/IP became the standard everywhere, IPX was pretty common in schools, offices, and older multiplayer games. Nowadays it’s mostly outdated, but you might still hear about it while learning networking basics or dealing with legacy systems.