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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IPX in Current? Date: 21 Mar 1996 23:50:46 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4isq0m$8hk@times.tfs.com> References: <4iro0p$da2@daily-planet.execpc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <4iro0p$da2@daily-planet.execpc.com>, Jeff Kane <jkane@earth.execpc.com> wrote: :Could somebody tell about the upcoming IPX support in the -Current :release. I am not up to trying it yet, but may find a use for IPX. WHy :is that being added. Will it be in preperation for portable Netware (I :think a waste of effort.) Or, will it be a native protocol and usable :only from one FreeBSD machine to another? : :Most importantlly, will there be some kind of Gateway from IP to IPX :(Hey, I can dream can't I!) The IPX support is to allow a FreeBSD machine to send , route and receive IPX packets. the only application program that makes use of this at the moment is IPXrouted which controls routing of IPX packets. I do know that some people are routing packets using it, and I can imagine that some people might have figured out how to tunnel IPX over IP using it, but that's all I know... (It can route mixed IP and IPX packets over a PPP line which is one of the reasons itr was done, to join two sites) julian