Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: uttt@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX Message-ID: <199510101816.LAA00880@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199510101720.TAA11450@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Oct 10, 95 07:20:28 pm
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yes please! and I'd like to know whether this fits in with what dennis was saying they had there.. dennis? now what about the IPX daemons from linux..? > > > > > Is the there any IPX protocal support for FreeBSD. I was considering > > the possibility of porting the linux Netware daemans to FreeBSD. > > > I have a working IPX that I derived from the XNS (/sys/netns) code in FreeBSD. > We use it mostly for routing. I have changed ifconfig and netstat to understand > IPX and build IPXrouted with IPX RIP and SAP support. > > I didn't do SPX because we did not need it and I only changed the ed ethernet > driver because we use SMC cards. It only works for Ethernet II and not the > 802.3 ethernet protocol that Novell used as a default for a long time. > > There is minimal changes to the kernel. There is about 3 files (device drivers > excluded) and sys/netipx that is new. > > If you want it, I will clean it up a bit and put it somewhere for ftp. > > We would actualy like to get the code into FreeBSD, if it is wanted. Core > team???? > > John > -- > John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za >
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