Dear List,

Don't take this discussion to some other port!  It will be a very important
move when we can connect Netbsd machines to IPX/SPX (Novell) lans.  Alot of
people think that this is a "bad" word (Novell) but there is more lans out
there running Netware than anything else.  To be able to get a operating
system like Netbsd for free that will run the IPX protocol would inspire
many more IS managers to give it a try as a client server addition.  This
can only serve to help us (Netbsd users) out, the more people and especially
IS professionals with lots of programming experiance that join our ranks
will I assure you serve to propel the project along!

Keep up the good work.

Rick Copeland
Information Systems Manager
Intermag, Inc.


>> > >Is anyone aware of a freely available package that allows NetBSD/i386
systems
>> > >to participate in a Novell IPX/SPX network (either as client or server),
>> > >especially as a print server?
>
>> Our FreeBSD friends have already done it. FreeBSD-current has netipx
>> support. Here's a transcript from ftp ftp.freebsd.org:
>
>[ shows ftp://ftp.freebsd.org//pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/netipx/ ]
>
>There's nothing obvious there that implements NCP as far as I can see.
>Have I missed it ?
>
>(IPX is analogous to IP and UDP, SPX is analogous to, uh .. well
>not quite TCP since it's SOCK_SEQPACKET, NCP is analogous to NFS,
>very roughly).  NCP's the bulk of the work, really.
>
>Surely this discussion should be on tech-net (or something) rather than
>port-i386 ?
>-- 
>Ronald Khoo <ronald@demon.net> Voice: +44 181 371 1000 Fax: +44 181 371 1150
>
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