From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 23:00:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16940 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.230]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA16935 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00290; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:00:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Joe McGuckin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX? In-Reply-To: <199607191919.MAA11707@ns.via.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Joe McGuckin wrote: > Does FreeBSD support IPX? Is there any work going in in that area? I *think* it can route it. But IPX isn't a very routable protocol, so ? > I'd really like to be able to gateway TCP/IP to IPX/SPX... Ouch. IPX is such a mess I don't think I'd want to touch it, much less try to gateway a superior protocol (TCP) to it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major