Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 10:34:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: swaits@pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX/Netware 4? Message-ID: <199509061734.KAA00314@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950906073224.5305A-100000@moon> from "Stephen Waits" at Sep 6, 95 07:33:59 am
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> > Is anyone working on IPX and/or a Netware 4.x client for FreeBSD? Server? IPX patches were posted a while back. They are on tape at home somewhere and I'm sure they are in the list archives. The client is relatively easy compared to the server, and the client isn't that easy. I noticed you specified 4.x. You would have to reverse engineer packet signatures and the directory services login. It took 10 mathematicians at Microsoft a year to do that... makes sense, it's all based on RSA. Or you'd have to use bindery emulation and turn of packet signatures on the server. On the server, you'd have to implement ~1500 API's. That's what we had to do at Novell when we implemented NetWare for UNIX. Or you could implement the minimum number of API's, maybe by watching an NT server handle NT and Win95 NetWare client requests to see the subset of NCP's they actually implemented. Or you could license the Puzzle systems code and port it. It uses the BPF and is NetWare 3.11 compatible (no packet burst, no packet signatures, bindery only). Or you could license NWU from Novell and port it. Last I heard, cost on licensing was: $100,000 NUC, the NetWare UNIX Client $150,000 NWU, the NetWare for UNIX Server $250,000 NUC, NWU, and UnixWare (hmmmm... I wonder where the value in UnixWare is) Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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