*BSD News Article 58499


Date: 29 Dec 1995 08:46:28 EDT
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: gwvince@gw2kbbs.com
Message-ID: <82024478951012@bbs.gw2kbbs.com>
Organization: Gateway 2000 Online Information Network
Subject: Can FreeBSD be made to do IPX/SPX?
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Hi all, 

   We've recently started using FreeBSD as a mission platform in our
shop here and have been quite impressed with the OS overall. While we
are moving towards TCP/IP as the standard network protocol we still
have various systems that depend on Novell Netware for sharing a
common filesystem and while some kind of NFS would probably be more
elegant that, sadly, isn't going to be an easy option (upgrading those
clients to be NFS-aware, that is). On the other hand, if we could
persuade FreeBSD to talk IPX/SPX on even a limited basis we might be
able to do without Netware altogether. 

   So the question is, "what literature is out there addressing this
topic or has anyone else done this?".


TIA


Vince Kub