Subject: Re: IPX protocol
To: Wouter Klouwen <dublet@dublet.org>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/23/2005 04:49:17
On Jun 15,  8:04am, Wouter Klouwen wrote:
} 
} lately I have been getting into some ancient games, which use IPX to power
} their network games. I know that at some point the kernel had the config
} option `options IPX', so after trying to enable it, it complains about
} missing headers from the `netipx' directory which, indeed, is not in the
} source tree.
} 
} Was IPX support ever removed from the kernel, if so why?

     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.

}-- End of excerpt from Wouter Klouwen