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Hinrich Eilts, Author of ipxtund, Where are You?
Leandro Dardini is desperately seeking Hinrich: "As consultant for a local provider, I have to present a solution for a big problem: tunnel IPX over IP to permit old application users to connect via Internet. After digging google, I found ipxtund,
written by Hinrich Eilts in 1998. It works great even after 4 years, but I have a question to the author. The author vanished. After searching again in Google, I found the last clue of Hinrich in a post on 23 Jul 1999, then nothing. I don't want to think the worst, but, Hinrich Eilts, where are you?"
Hold on. Someone just knocked over the concrete wall enclosing the parking lot across the street. I'll be back.
I have been pwned because my
I'm right here, bud! ;)
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Perhaps your looking in the wrong place for the author - the intenet. The author can be easily found on that Mormon-net, the global IPX network that Novell made. Mormon-net uses imprisoned Scientology members that have reached OT-3 and their resulting thought-rays for the transport layer. Good luck in finding a network card that works for it.
(kidding)
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Mozilla still has some missing hackers as well.
Mainly... David Nebinger, 'Uncle George', Makoto Kato, and Thierry LeBouil.
You could configure GRE tunnels between the sites and run IPX-over-GRE-over-IP. You can encrypt them, too, if you'd like. Fully supported, yadda yadda.
My god, I was going to start with a pitch for a non-GPL solution (I'll end with it instead) ... but did you not follow your own link? There are THREE IPX tunnel packages on that page, not one. Sure, the other two are not much more recent, but the situation is hardly as dire as you make out.
LSM links:
ipxtunnel by Andreas Godzina, from May 2000 (free for non-commercial purposes)
ipxtund by Hinrich Eilts, from August 1998 (GPL) - the one you referenced
& ipxbridge by Kir Kostuchenko, from January 2000 (GPL)
And, to be sure, any IPX-compatible VPN will also solve your problem, permitting IPX traffic to traverse an IP-only link.
But if it were me, I'd go to the source. If you are using IPX, you are most likely using Novell's Netware. Any recent version (5.x, 6.0) will support IPX tunneling using CMD (Compatibility-mode) drivers. This solution has the advantage of being commercially supported (an important consideration for an ISP), relatively easy to configure, and, if you are running the appropriate version of Netware already, won't cost you anything additional.
Out of curiosity, what is the application? Doom? Not many applications (aside from old IPX-only Netware clients and compatibles such as ncpfs) require IPX exclusively.
The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life
Man, get out there now and steal yourself some rubble!
My god himself, this is amazing!
Should we really be making a big 'Ask Slashdot' question out of this subject? It seems like it exposes one of the 'ugly faces' of Free Software that some organization has committed to this package, they apparently can't maintain it themselves, and now the developer can't be found.
Throwing this out as an 'Ask Slashdot' topic makes it a hard-data example that entities pushing proprietary software, i.e. Microsoft, can point to when making the case that 'you won't have anybody to call' with Free Software.
Hmmm, as far as I know Microsoft doesn't support Win95 any more. Isn't that just the way of all old software, free or non-free?
Windows 95 is supported. You can purchase the upgrade from Microsoft for the low-low price of $200. It's called Windows XP.
Help! I've been desparately looking for this missing, uh... coder.. yeah. Her name is Anna Kournikova. I've tried contacting all of the email addresses that I've found listed but she is unreachable. If anyone could give me her current contact information, I would sure appreciate it. Thanks!
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
This page lists an e-mail address for him, eilts@tor.muc.de. I hope that helps.
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It takes a decent amount of force to bend that reinforcing reinforcing bar.
(It's comments like this that make me wish 'no bonus' was the default.)
But then again, I could be wrong.
I'm using vtun.sourceforge.net (which is still under active development) combined with the universal tun/tap driver in the kernel and the linux bridging code to create a more generic solution.
On both sides I create bridges which enslave a physical nic, and the "virtual" tap device.
Since this is an ethernet, not an IP tunnel, it tunnels appletalk, and should tunnel IPX and other traffic too.
It can be compressed and (of course) encrypted too. Performance is very good, even for multiple tunnel, and can be tweaked according to the processor power available.
This way I have even bridged more than two geographical locations too. For instance with 3 connections 1,2,3 I had connections between 1-2, 2-3 and 3-1. But because of the bridging code Spanning Tree Protocol, those redundant connections will only buy you "backup" connections, there's still going to be two nodes that have to communicate via a third. (If you use vtun to do IP tunneling instead of ethernet tunneling, you can use proper routing of course.)
I'm very happy with vtun, it's easy and extremely versatile.
keep that shit in the froups where it belongs. Next thing you know there'll be death threats on alt.bsd.
karma, I hardly knew ye.
...and this lie crawls out of its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'
Microsoft doesn't support Windows 95 or 98, NT 4.0 is pretty much left adrift (beyond access to SP6), and Windows 2000 has 9 months left before it too gets cut from new sales. It's the MS way. Upgrade or you lose support. That's the best argument FOR open-source software.
cheers,
Andrew
XP will not run on a 486, Windows 95 will. Upgrades aren't always an option.
I was looking at the IPX over IP issue off and on.
I like to play Red Alert 2 with my brother and a couple other friends. While it uses IP on the internet it needs IPX to run LAN games (dumb). I was thinking about IPX over IP tunnels over cable network so we can all play together every so often when we get the bug.
I dismissed the idea pretty quick at first because it was really unnecessary and silly to mess with. I later came back and thought it would be a good way to learn more about the intricacies of networking. I learned way more about networking running an Unreal Tournament server than a lot of books will teach. It's great for learning how much you can do with your bandwidth, tune for lowest latency possible, learn how the various tradeoffs affect it all, how ram/cpu affect performance, etc.
I played around with a borrowed Mac and atalkd to support the Macs at work (a few in Media Arts only). They bought new one and when 100% OS X so Appletalk went away. I still played with appletalk to my linux box for experience anyway. They got a piece of hardware that they needed but it didn't support OS X. The storage they wanted to connect to supported Appletalk but was in another subnet. The netadmin refused to add Appletalk to his routing/bridging/etc. for one machine (the network here is complex enough already). I put up a basic Linux box to connect to the storage by NFS and reshared it with atalkd on the subnet with the OS9 machine on it. I looked like a hero and this was right before reviews/raises.
I don't underestimate learning a skill even if it is just for game or hacking for hacking sake. You never know when it could help you later. At least a game/whatever is an application you can test against and have some goals
someone help me find that guy laden ..
...The ghost in the machine...
I'm kidding, of course, but that was the first thing I thought of when I read the article.
Sorry if I spelled it wrong, it's been a long time since I last watched Brazil.
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
Actually, Windows 98 is still supported...for a little bit at least. Donno about NT 4.0 since I don't use it. Windows 2000 may have 9 more months of OEM sales, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you won't be able to find it on store shelves in shrinkwrapped plastic. Support for 2000 will extended beyond just the cutoff date of selling it in stores. Think Windows 95. They just recently cut off all support for it long after you couldn't find it in stores.
While I'm at it, I'd like to make a list of a few people who I have a grudge aga^W^W^W^Wowe money to. I would like to give them what they deserve.