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Subject: Re: netns
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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
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