Drawbacks
- The LPX Protocol is not routable, thus limiting access to one local area network.
- Some firewall programs block the LPX protocol by default. It uses EtherType value 0x88AD.
- Drivers required to operate NDAS devices over a network are not shipped with operating systems. The devices are usually accompanied with client driver software for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Drivers for Linux-based operating systems (Linux distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian) are available only from the manufacturer. The Linux connection package does have a shared read and write access mode. However it must be used with a multi-client file system.
An open source management interface was made available for Linux in 2009.
A similar protocol is ATA over Ethernet.
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