Subject: Re: IPX/SPX for NetBSD?
To: None <ronald@demon.net>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/26/1997 14:31:13
ronald@demon.net writes:

> 
> > > >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 ?

Nope; it's not there.

Inspection of that code at one point showed that it was basically
just netns run through:

s/ns/ipx/ig
s/spp/spx/ig

I think one of the packets headers is wider, and the Ethernet frame
type is different, also.