From owner-freebsd-net Fri Nov 13 18:28:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06352 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:28:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lion.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [194.87.112.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06347 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:28:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from localhost (bp@localhost) by lion.butya.kz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA28593; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 08:27:11 +0600 (ALMT) Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 08:27:11 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Jim Cassata , FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: Netware client for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <18342.910995606@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > This is extremely important for all of us FreeBSD proponents out there! > > Caldera has the right idea, because it is their bundling of Netware > > services with their Linux distribution that incents MIS people to > > They can do this because they have an agreement with Novell to do so. But Mars_nwe was written by Martin Stover from scratch. > > > introduce a new OS into their environment. Just about all of our > > customers are Netware environments, and it is precisely this lack of a > > Netware client or integration into NDS that usually halts any FreeBSD box > > from being introduced. Just look at what is happening in our industyr > > That's just silly. The netcon product has been out for *3 years* now > and delivers more than adequate Netware client, server and IPX gateway > functionality at a reasonable price. It has been on our commercial > software pages and in the commerce distribution since almost day one as > well so nobody can say we didn't publicise it as an option. Yes, price is reasonable, but some peoples and organizations still can't by it. In addition, netcon product does not support (at least for now) FreeBSD 3.0 and miss some functions in server implementation. In general, FreeBSD need some improvements to IPX stack and routing daemon (I wrote about that to Jhon Hay). -- Boris Popov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message