From owner-freebsd-net Tue Mar 4 19:51:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E50F37B401; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.19.129.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E58643FA3; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bp@vertex.kz) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EC508591C; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:51:21 +0600 (ALMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6F34944; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:51:21 +0600 (ALMT) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:51:21 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov X-Sender: bp@lion.butya.kz To: Tim Robbins Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of netns In-Reply-To: <20030305004730.A13129@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tim Robbins wrote: > Is there a compelling reason why I shouldn't remove netns? That is, does > it serve a purpose now that it could not serve if it was moved to the > Attic? netns could be safely moved to Attic. I'm receive enough IPX related questions, and never got any about XNS. netns stack was used by NetCon package which implemented TFS filesystem for NetWare connectivity. Guess, which protocol they used to communicate with servers ? Right, it was IPX. So, if netns were still supported it became just a parallel implementation of netipx. Last version of FreeBSD supported by NetCon was 2.2.X. Lack of support for FreeBSD 3.X encouraged me to write nwfs because it was necessary for my daily tasks. BTW, NetCon still offers their product for FreeBSD 2.2: http://www.netcon.com/download/download.htm -- Boris Popov http://rbp.euro.ru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message