From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 5 12:24:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22689 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from bighorn.accessnv.com (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com [206.29.25.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22684 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:24:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jca@localhost) by bighorn.accessnv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA17784; Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:25:02 -0800 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 12:25:02 -0800 (PST) From: "J.C. Archambeau" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX Support? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > I'll see what I can do regarding adding some more IPX support, or planting > the hint that people want it, but it's dependent on whether someone > actually wants to work on it. I read on the web about the Linux-IPX howto. Apparently, Linux has virtually full IPX support (client, routing, server and printer sharing) with an external package known as ipxtools. I don't know how well it works though. Consequently, I also did look into Samba. That package will serve my purpose just as well as having full IPX support under FreeBSD. It's basically a toss up between how I want to implement the connectivity via IPX or Samba. I only looked at it briefly but it seems that Samba can be compiled as an NLM for a Netware server as well. JCA