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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!news.sol.net!daily-planet.execpc.com!earth!jkane From: jkane@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Kane) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IPX in Current? Date: 22 Mar 1996 14:54:27 GMT Organization: Exec-PC Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4iuev3$o0i@daily-planet.execpc.com> References: <4iro0p$da2@daily-planet.execpc.com> <4isq0m$8hk@times.tfs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: earth-le1.execpc.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Julian Elischer (julian@mailhub.tfs.com) wrote: : Jeff Kane <jkane@earth.execpc.com> wrote: : :Could somebody tell about the upcoming IPX support in the -Current : :release. I am not up to trying it yet, but may find a use for IPX. WHy : (It can route mixed IP and IPX packets over a PPP line which is one of the : reasons itr was done, to join two sites) So, Has anybody gotten this idea to work with Win 95 as the client? I haven't even tried using win 95 yet, but that is the chosen platform for most of our home users. I am setting up a PPP server with FreeBSD, and it would be great if they could PPP connect and use both IPX and IP over their PPP link. The idea is to have both telnet available and running Login for Novell servers simultaniouslly! Can't I have my cake and my beer too? -- Jeff Kane jkane@execpc.com Sysop - Home Brew University BBS Brew City Campus 414-238-9074 Genealogy Search: Brickner, Kane, Kimbro, LaClaire, Snyder|Snider, Seecs|Seetch|Sich, and Thorton. Visit my homepage for more ... http://www.execpc.com/~jkane