From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 19 00:09:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA12599 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:09:32 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA12594 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:09:30 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA18885; Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:07:59 -0700 Message-ID: <3085F94F.13776BA0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:07:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis CC: supervisor@alb.asctmd.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jhay@mikom.csir.co.za Subject: Re: IPX feedback request -Reply References: <199510182032.SAA19360@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote: > I can just think of the following: > 1) Routing Netware networks. This should be made by a daemon > .. > 2) Mounting NetWare disks. This is really a problem. How to convert > .. > 3) Print Services. A netware aware lpd would be useful. Most And the irony is that most people won't show much interest in IPX support for FreeBSD *until* these features appear. There's a "knee" here where IPX is only going to be of interest to a very small set of people until the framework is in place to support the rest. Those doing the development are just going to live with that, I guess! :-( -- Jordan