From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 16:49:53 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20834C7F for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:49:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1678FC17 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so6680031iea.13 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:49:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=qkLKkDRks2fTAQF9xnUeR3TH9QAk1Vd7XbtluKeZlus=; b=tZRVKpF7NZpDkr5ga4tJKHTE4zn4U4cQM+O0KeHOhuwkrA2aNf9qE0Lh/yTdSofuEh QDw9YDzGD7i4Bu4n/urRjDIHqAPoF860lobX1iij6jsPWSrQ0aLjFQ1z5MowmNKDzhKG JJxDbnVNqV/htnpyQ+s0RsdmObnfDuBubfNOJM+UgBOmaO50usiIoGoQYJAiRKfweLLY pLhU3f8uLQkfvcsyTR3fTNKRd7Qs+Soqb54p6O9nl6S9K1nBndMI27dfYJjwKoJ1qlZ3 YupqgqpbnmVMYAfO/niwIuxa5Om9iKtNZq8SBM1wXuecwjHIESWYd9uZGOy4NnE7nVaf PiqQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.95.10 with SMTP id d10mr3897496icn.30.1350060592559; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:49:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.30.11 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:49:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:49:52 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How does freebsd supports ipx? From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: nightrecon@hotmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:49:53 -0000 On 12 October 2012 09:44, Michael Powell wrote: > 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 I believe what you read in Wikipedia may be out of date.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. > "options IPX" is still valid in 9.1-RC2. -- --