From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:55:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21952 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21865 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00910; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: Mark Castillo , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX: what is it good for? In-Reply-To: <34F5EF2A.502B3D48@image.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > Mark Castillo wrote: > > > > At 12:51 AM 2/25/98 +0100, you wrote: > > >The kernel supports IPX, but what uses IPX? > > > > > Novell servers and workstations us IPX. IP does everything you should > > need, unless you are running Novell. > > > So if I enable IPX in the kernel, what can the fbsd-box then do for a > Novell workstation? Route IPX packets from one network to another. If you buy the Netcon package, the FreeBSD box can *be* your Novell server. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message