Subject: Re: IPX Support?
To: Jon Miner <miner@doit.wisc.edu>
From: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/02/1999 22:45:02
I notice that FreeBSD has IPX-support, and OpenBSD integrated the
FreeBSD code into their tree. I suppose NetBSD could do the same by
integrating the code from one of the two other BSD camps. Anyone
volunteering? I'd love to run mars_nwe under NetBSD.
-- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/
Jon Miner <miner@doit.wisc.edu> writes:
> I saw some mention in the archives long ago on the port-i386 list about
> IPX Networking on NetBSD, but no conclusion.
>
> Is there an experimental IPX implementation out there or anything?
>
> What most people were overlooking in the earlier conversations was that
> IPX != NCP, and there is a good free implementation of NCP called ncpfs,
> which will run over IP (for NetWare 5 servers) or IPX (for NetWare 3/4
> servers)..
>
> Does anybody know what's up?
>
> thanks,
>
> jon
>
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