Re: Linux Networking Status/Plans as of 2.1.28

Andi Gutmans (andi@vipe.technion.ac.il)
Sun, 9 Mar 1997 00:59:00 +0200 (IST)

On Sat, 8 Mar 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> IPX:
> Seems to have some small bugs. Not having an IPX network I can't tell.
> The changes affecting IPX are fairly small so it shouldn't take much to fix
> any problems that may be left. No maintainer, no work in progress. No interface
> changes anticipated. NCPfs seems to need fixing too.

This seems to be very buggy. I had to revert back to using a novell server
for IPX routing after a year of problems. Even now using linux as a node
(with the 2.0.x kernels) it's a bit shakey. ncpfs works well but other
utils like slist need to be often run twice inorder for the result to be
successfull.
running slist i get:
0:57 vipe /home/staff/andi> slist
slist: No server found in ncp_open
and one second later it works. it's very strange.
Maybe IPX should have a hash table? (or is it already?)

Anyways it's VERY flaky.
Maybe one can look at FreeBSD code. I'd assume it might work there.

Andi