From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 08:18:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA11277 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA11258 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10925; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:18:35 -0300 (EST) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199607081518.MAA10925@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: IPX & TLI To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 12:18:35 -0300 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199607081455.QAA10096@allegro.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "Jul 8, 96 04:55:53 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL14 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk #define quoting(Greg Lehey) // > // I am currently working on a networking project // > // between UnixWare and MS-DOS over the Novell IPX protocol. // > // I'd like to port the Unix-side on FreeBSD. I have based // > // my work on the sysV "TLI" interface with IPX. Is it possible // > // to use IPX in FreeBSD with TLI ? // > // > No. There's no implementation of STREAMS and, consequently, TLI over // > FreeBSD (yet :) ). // // I don't think that STREAMS is a prerequisite for TLI. I thought the // reason TLI hadn't been implemented is because it's such a pain, and // BSD has sockets. True. TLI can be implemented with emulation over sockets, but I don't know if all functionality will be available and the most important (Protocol Independence) probably will not. The only system I knew that had TLI without a *full* STREAMS kernel is SunOS 4.1. But SunOS already had a STREAMS capable kernel, although it was not used for TCP/IP networking core. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro