Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:55:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Leif Neland <leifn@image.dk> Cc: Mark Castillo <webmaster@webfreaks.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX: what is it good for? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226175439.817O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34F5EF2A.502B3D48@image.dk>
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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
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