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From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Now that 2.1 is out. What next?
Date: 7 Dec 1995 01:52:32 GMT
Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA
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In article <4a48pi$ir0@server.cs.vt.edu>, Carl Harris <ceharris@mal.com> wrote:
>Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
>
>Any chance that anyone is working on IPX support for FreeBSD?  Since it's
>derived from XNS, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to put together
>kernel support for it.

IPX is already fully supported in the kernel in -current..
ifconfig and netstat know about it, and
it has IPXrouted which manages SAP routes etc.

>
>Sure would be nice for FreeBSD to have some affinity with NetWare -- file 
>and print services, in particular.  Getting IPX into the kernel would be
>a first step towards providing those kinds of services.  Imagine FreeBSD
>being used instead of NT as an enterprise NetWare server!  <grin>
well what we need is someone to take it from here and become the 
co-ordinator for this project..
we have IPX, now all we need is someone to 
take all the PD Netware packages off the net, and make a single 
coherent system out of them..

Julian
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