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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!fizban.solace.mh.se!vampire.xinit.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!ceharris From: ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Now that 2.1 is out. What next? Date: 9 Dec 1995 12:44:39 GMT Organization: Maladjusted Communications Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4ac0bn$17a@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <slrn4bl49t.9dt.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> <30C1044A.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <4a48pi$ir0@server.cs.vt.edu> <4a7mtl$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: ceharris@mal.com NNTP-Posting-Host: mal9000.mal.com NNTP-Posting-User: ceharris X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : ceharris@mal.com (Carl Harris) writes: : > Any chance that anyone is working on IPX support for FreeBSD? Since it's : > derived from XNS, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to put together : > kernel support for it. : IPX routing support is already in FreeBSD-current. : As i'm understanding it, supporting Netware is much more than : supporting just IPX, however, and there's no good chance to guess the : higher-level protocol stuff. I'm not suggesting that anyone will reverse-engineer the undisclosed NetWare code. I'm thinking that Novell might be convinced to make a port of their NetWare server package for Solaris to FreeBSD (and other "free" U*ix systems), given that the FreeBSD userbase is growing steadily, many people have a great aversion to WinNT, and FreeBSD already has kernel support for IPX. -- Carl Harris EXECUTIVE Scapegoat ceharris@mal.com http://www.mal.com/~ceharris