From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 02:58:25 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA23668 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 02:58:25 -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 CAA23593 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 02:57:26 -0700 Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA27158; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:44:54 +0200 From: John Hay Message-Id: <199510120944.LAA27158@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: IPX now available To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 11:44:53 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <14325.813484855@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 12, 95 01:00:55 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: 788 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > That certainly sounds useful enough to me. What do other folks think? > Is this stuff in a shape where it could be imported? > Well I'm not sure if the last question is aimed at me or if it is a general question. All the diffs to the kernel is #ifdef IPX 'ed, so if you don't have options IPX in your kernel config file, it won't be compiled in. If we are going to import it, I will create diffs for the Makefiles and the two functions and the man page (ipx_addr(), ipx_ntoa() and ipx.3) for them in libc that should be added. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za