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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be made to do IPX/SPX? Date: 30 Dec 1995 00:18:30 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4c20gm$b4r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <82024478951012@bbs.gw2kbbs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 gwvince@gw2kbbs.com writes: > 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. IPX support went into FreeBSD-current recently. However, it's my understanding that the higher-level Netware protocol layers are proprietary, and it's not a simple task to implement them. So all you could do with said IPX support is using your FreeBSD box as an IPX router. (Somebody correct me if i'm wrong.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)