### 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