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Date:      Sun, 22 Sep 2002 23:21:45 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netns
Message-ID:  <200209222121.g8MLLkOT033782@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <3D8E2F5C.48B92F70@mindspring.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 22, 2002 02:00:12 pm"

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> John Hay wrote:
> > Why don't they use the netipx code? Surely netware use ipx.
> 
> IPX is based on XNS.  It differs by one significant field.  The
> SAP (Service Advertisement Protocol) in IPX comed directly from
> XNS.

So you are agreeing with me that to use netns to do ipx when we
have netipx does not make sense? :-)

> FWIW.

I know, a lot of my time went into netipx, which was derived from
netns. I also did IPXrouted which does SAP too.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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