From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 11 13:29:46 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA16711 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:29:46 -0700 Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA16703 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:29:35 -0700 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA11913 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:25:19 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199510112025.WAA11913@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: IPX now available To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-hackers) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 22:25:18 +0200 (SAT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 964 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi, OK the ipx code is at ftp.internat.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD.local/ipx.tgz In there is a README file that describe how to get it going. If I have forgotten something please yell. :-) How do the core-team feel about making IPX part of the FreeBSD distribution? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za > 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. >