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Hinrich Eilts, Author of ipxtund, Where are You? 55

Posted by Cliff from the are-ya-still-out-there dept.
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?"
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  • He's dead Jim (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by ObviousGuy ( 578567 )
    Hold on. Someone just knocked over the concrete wall enclosing the parking lot across the street. I'll be back.

    • Re:He's dead Jim (Score:4, Funny)

      by JabberWokky ( 19442 ) <slashdot.com@timewarp.org> on Tuesday July 09, 2002 @08:08PM (#3853457) Homepage Journal
      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?)

      --
      Evan

      • Well, the wall has a section about ten feet across where a moving truck backed into it doing a U-Turn. Cinder blocks lay strewn across the grass and into the abutting parking lot on the other side of the wall. Reinforcing rebar is exposed and gnarled.

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

          --
          Evan

        • Reinforcing rebar is exposed and gnarled

          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.)

  • /me waves (Score:2, Funny)

    by WiKKeSH ( 543962 )
    I'm right here, bud! ;)

  • Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)

    by zulux ( 112259 )
    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)
  • Mozilla still has some missing hackers [mozilla.org] 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.

  • Multiple solutions here (Score:3, Informative)

    by AndyDeck ( 29830 ) on Tuesday July 09, 2002 @08:43PM (#3853580) Homepage Journal
    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 [unc.edu] by Andreas Godzina, from May 2000 (free for non-commercial purposes)
    ipxtund [unc.edu] by Hinrich Eilts, from August 1998 (GPL) - the one you referenced
    & ipxbridge [unc.edu] 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.
    • 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.

  • 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.
    • So? Do you want to win because we're right, or because we lie better?

    • Doesn't all software end up being Disappearware? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by bleeeeck ( 190906 ) on Tuesday July 09, 2002 @10:21PM (#3853938)
      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?

    • if we need it enough, someone will take over and keep the thing going. thats the beauty of open source. this is a positive point, not negative.

  • Dear Slashdot, (Score:4, Funny)

    by kasparov ( 105041 ) on Tuesday July 09, 2002 @10:47PM (#3854060)

    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 (Score:3, Informative)

    by Mad Marlin ( 96929 ) <cgore@cgore.com> on Tuesday July 09, 2002 @11:30PM (#3854253) Homepage
    This page [rpmfind.net] lists an e-mail address for him, eilts@tor.muc.de [mailto]. I hope that helps.
  • 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.

  • IPX over IP (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Strog ( 129969 )
    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
  • ...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.

    • "ERE I AM
      J. H."

      "I always wondered if they were real!"
      "...What, my ears?"
      " - ... oh yes that's right. I always used to wonder if you wore false ears. False ears."

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