From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 00:55:00 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA13740 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:55:00 -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 AAA13715 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 00:53:47 -0700 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA25295; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:48:38 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199510120748.JAA25295@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: IPX now available To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:48:38 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <6771.813481276@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 12, 95 00:01:16 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 609 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > How do the core-team feel about making IPX part of the FreeBSD distribution? > > I guess it depends on how polished and useful it is! I certainly see > no reason why it couldn't evolve in -current, if there's sufficient > interest! > Well from when I released it last night, 10 people already ftp'ed it. So there is some interest. If it is enough I don't know. About the usefulness, as it is it can be used as an IPX router. It should also be useful for the proposed porting of the linux netware server, which actually prompted me to release the ipx code. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za