From: jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James MacLean) Subject: Re: Novell IPX under DOS emulator? Date: 10 Feb 1993 23:41:00 GMT
In article <729315751snx@eyrie.demon.co.uk> df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
>Hey,
> I wasn't seriously suggesting that anyone does this, although possible
>I consider it to be a ugly hack. A much better solution would be to
>implement IPX/SPX sockets in the kernel network code (type AF_NOVELL)
>and then presenting the IPX/SPX API from the dos emulator. This would
>have the advantage that no IPX (or PKTIPX) would need to be loaded.
>
> Implementing as I originally suggested would require working raw
>sockets, (I can't remember what state they are currently in) and code
>in the dos emulator to present the packet driver interface.
>
> As IPX/SPX is (I believe) the only part of Netware that is publically
>documented it should not be too hard. I happen to have a Novell book
>(picked up in a book shop one lazy weekend) that describes the packet
>format and that could be used as a starting point.
>
> Actually, after rereading the above I think that the packet driver
>approach could be used as a first hack (just for the hell of it) and
>the AF_NOVELL as a second (final ?) method.
>
> Anyway, this is all so much pie-in-the-sky, no one would actually be
>sick enough to implement this, would they?
>
>[ Then the next step would be to reverse engineer Netware (NETX.COM) to
> give access (in a similar way to the NFS stubs and server) to the
> fileserver for normal processes... :-) ]
>
> DF
>--
>Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
Although IPX_SPX would be great for the Linux kernel, I feel I could make
more use of a packet driver. IPX_SPX is only one of the many things I have
used the packet driver for.
It does seem like there is some definite interest here though!
JES
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