Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:44 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How does freebsd supports ipx? Message-ID: <k596qs$tnv$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <CAEcL0ZzTYyRFhFmXRSk4V7XwJhQd-1j40mZ0Y_xb0XkaJp1zpg@mail.gmail.com>
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YC Wang wrote: [snip] > syscall returns successfully. But I don't find any ipx module in > /boot/kernel/ on freebsd. > > So I wonder how does freebsd supports ipx? Is there any other work > I should do for this purpose? I believe what you read in Wikipedia may be out of date. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that IPX was dropped from FreeBSD and is no longer supported. The code went unmaintained for too long and succumbed to bit rot, so eventually it was pulled. What I am unclear about is exactly when this happened. It wasn't all that long ago. -Mike
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