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:He's dead Jim

[JabberWokky]

Hold on. Someone just knocked over the concrete wall enclosing the parking lot across the street. I'll be back.

It frightens me that this comment is almost more interesting than the article. (So what happened?)

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Evan

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:He's dead Jim

[JabberWokky]

Nothing too serious. Just a lot of noise. Someone's going to have to build that wall up again.

Well, next time someone posts an Ask Slashdot wondering where Hinrich is, tell us how the rebuild went.

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Evan

Doesn't all software end up being Disappearware?

[bleeeeck]

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?

Dear Slashdot,

[kasparov]

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!

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?