Helloooooo list!

Did I see/hear IPX/SPX?  I sure could use a way to connect Netbsd 1.2 to IPX
(NOVELL) for all my NetBSD platforms (VAX, SUN3, SUN3x and i386).

There are a lot of people around the Sacramento area who would like it as well!

Rick Copeland


At 10:15 AM 4/24/97 -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Max Bell wrote:
>
>> >From: tmm@mcci.com (Terry Moore)
>> >
>> >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?  I'm aware of the Novell Netware/IP offerings
>> >that can provide similar function, but for a special application I'd like
>> >to avoid that if possible.
>> 
>> The only freeware IPX software I am aware of is `lwared`, and afaik it only
>> runs on Linux.  It could probably be ported, if the *BSD gods were interested
>> (which I doubt).
>
>Our FreeBSD friends have already done it. FreeBSD-current has netipx
>support. Here's a transcript from ftp ftp.freebsd.org:
>
>(in /pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys)
>ftp> cd netipx
>250 CWD command successful.
>ftp> ls -C
>200 PORT command successful.
>150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
>README          ipx_error.h     ipx_outputfl.c  ipx_usrreq.c  spx_timer.h
>ipx.c           ipx_if.h        ipx_pcb.c       ipx_var.h     spx_usrreq.c
>ipx.h           ipx_input.c     ipx_pcb.h       spx.h           spx_var.h
>ipx_cksum.c     ipx_ip.c        ipx_proto.c     spx_debug.c
>ipx_error.c     ipx_ip.h        ipx_tun.c       spx_debug.h
>226 Transfer complete.
>ftp> get README "|more"
>200 PORT command successful.
>150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for README (646 bytes).
>This protocol implements IPX/SPX over Ethernet_II frame type 0x8137.
>Please note: the SPX implementation may require further work and testing
>to insure proper operation.
>
>(there's more, but that's about it).
>
>So now it's just a matter of porting it to NetBSD. I just finished the
>NetAtalk port, and FreeBSD and NetBSD are close-enough together right now
>to make the porting not too bad (though I neither have the time nor the
>setup to help).
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill
>
>