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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:43:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (Joao Carlos Mendes Luis)
Cc:        101355.2112@CompuServe.COM, questions@FreeBsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPX & TLI
Message-ID:  <199607082243.PAA22721@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199607060242.XAA18547@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> from "Joao Carlos Mendes Luis" at Jul 5, 96 11:42:30 pm

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> #define quoting(Thierry Boudet)
> // 		Hello everybody
> // 
> // 	I am currently working on a networking project 
> // between UnixWare and MS-DOS over the Novell IPX protocol.
> // I'd like to port the Unix-side on FreeBSD. I have based
> // my work on the sysV "TLI" interface with IPX. Is it possible
> // to use IPX in FreeBSD with TLI ?
> 
> No.  There's no implementation of STREAMS and, consequently, TLI over
> FreeBSD (yet :) ).

TLI = Transport Layer Interface.

TLI is an alternative to sockets, with a seperate (non-standardized)
NSI for name services (which is integrated into sockets).

You do not have to implement Streams to implement TLI (or vice versa).


					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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