From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 09:07:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA07924 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:07:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA07919 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-14.ime.net.148.231.206.in-addr.arpa [206.231.148.143]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA14294; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:06:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31D2B1CC.3023@ime.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 12:07:40 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beck Peccoz Amedeo CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX References: <31D19982.41C67EA6@masternet.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Beck Peccoz Amedeo wrote: > > Please reply to me personally as I'm not subscribed to this > mailing list. > > Is anyone experienced with the IPX protocol under FreeBSD? > I'd like to know if it's possible to have a FreeBSD file server > seen by DOS clients using the IPX protocol. At present I'm using > TCP/IP & samba, but the TCP/IP under DOS is really unusable... > > Thank you > Welp, I am as well interested in such abilities, I have some that just flat won't give up dos for certian projects! John Hay is working on IPX/SPX code in the kernel. Here is a clip from my query to him. (Thanks John) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- It is in the FreeBSD-current tree, so you should be able to get it from any site that keep/mirror -current. It is only the IPX/SPX networking code in the kernel (sys/netipx) and a daemon (usr.sbin/IPXrouted) to exchange RIP/SAP info. So at the moment it is only usefull as a router, or if you want to write/port programs that use IPX. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Linux folx are working on a package called LinWare (lwared-0.95) A clip from thier readme -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- OVERVIEW -------- This package contains LinWare server v0.95 beta and IPX router daemons v0.9. LinWare daemon implements a subset of NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) allowing users to access files on Linux system using NetWare client (e.g. from MS DOS). Aditionally IPX router daemons makes Linux to work as an IPX internetwork router conforming to the IPX Router Specification v1.10 (except IPX NetBIOS flood fill). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I have plans to _attempt_ porting LinWare to FreeBSD as soon as I can scrape up a bit of time. I wouldn't count on it though because I have never ported anything to Unix. Anybody willing to guide me?? I do know C in the Dos/Win world. It can't be that much different in FreeBSD.. :) -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848