Subject: Re: IPX protocol
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/23/2005 18:46:43
Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:49:17AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
[ ... ]
>>     We never did have working IPX support.  It is something I would
>> like to have too.  It would be useful to allow NetBSD to act as a
>> server on legacy Novell networks.  Once NetBSD is in there, you could
>> transition to an IP based network.  Of course, to fully support this,
>> we would also have to support SPX and NCP and be able to export disks
>> as Netware shares.
> 
> Do you know of any available real documentation on this? (Other than reading
> GPL ?ncpfs?)

Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> has been doing some work recently to fix 
the IPX implementation in FreeBSD.  It seems possible that he might be able to 
provide some pointers or documentation, if asked politely.  :-)

Otherwise, consider:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netipx/

-- 
-Chuck