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?"

Comments

Re:And while we are at it...

[mirabilos]

OpenBSD is looking for some people who have
copyright on the pppd (not ppp) code, because
their license does not explicitly permit
modification and pppd is in danger of being removed.

Multiple solutions here

[AndyDeck]

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.

Re:Multiple solutions here

[jrwillis]

Out of curiosity, what is the application?

Well we have the same problem at the agency I work for. We use two very old in house programs (uniscope and AREV) that tie all the client pc's to our mainframe in Austin, and it was designed stricktly for IPX. Oh, and we JUST finished upgrading all 800+ file servers from netware 3.12 to 5.1, so CMD definatly wasn't an option.

E-Mail Address

[Mad Marlin]

This page lists an e-mail address for him, eilts@tor.muc.de. I hope that helps.

Re:E-Mail Address

[Mad Marlin]

[Replying to myself ...]

That last server apparently is non-existant now, sorry. However, this much older page from the FreeBSD mail archives lists his e-mail as eilts@iwte01.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de, which suggests that he went to that university at some point in time. Perhaps you could get contact information from them?