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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian 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 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4a5hd0$6aq@times.tfs.com> References: <slrn4bl49t.9dt.coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> <30C1044A.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> <4a48pi$ir0@server.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com 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 +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 300 lakeside Dr. oakland CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 645-3137(wk) \_/ \\ ><DARWIN> v LL LL