On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:49:17AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> 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.

Do you know of any available real documentation on this? (Other than reading
GPL ?ncpfs?)

Cheers,

Patrick