From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 13:47:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA15641 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:47:59 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA15635 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 13:47:57 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA10841; Mon, 15 May 95 14:41:09 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505152041.AA10841@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Netware client? -Reply To: SUPERVISOR@alb.asctmd.com Date: Mon, 15 May 95 14:41:09 MDT Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "SUPERVISOR@alb.asctmd.com" at May 15, 95 08:55:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I put out some patches to implement an IPX/SPX stack on FreeBSD > around February. I have not received much feed back on these since. > These patches DO NOT implement a NetWare client... As a former Novell employee, I avoid the IPX and SPX protocols. The client code would probably be rather trivial to write if you could find a way to do it legally. The biggest hole is the ability to have multiple users on a mount (or per user mounts) withing the authentication model, and configuring the server to not require packet signatures. It is a hole I would not wish to be sucked into. You might have more feedback if you could configure a FreeBSD system as a tunnel to tunnel IPX/SPX over a TCP/IP connection to link remote networks. Do you have routing support? Unfortunately, I'm not in an environment where I can even test it any more. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.