On 10/28/13 8:42 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
Hello!
[Cc to stable@, for wider audience]
The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/,
meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would
be shipped without them.
1) AppleTalk
Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice
had very little use since 90th.
Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2].
I did a lot of work on this to get it going in the 90s but
really it's only current value is as an example of a non-IP protocol.
(and the same for IPX, which was what Novell used to use I believe.)
I'd be pretty amazed to discover anyone still used either.
ok I did see someone talking about IPX a while back but, really
it should probably go.. the timeframe is good.. "shoot in 11" :-)
2) IPX
Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[3]. In practice
had very little use since 90th.
Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2011[4].
Current status of these protocols in FreeBSD is "compilable". For the
next couple of years, we plan a lot of changes in networking stack,
many of which will require changing the protocols, as well. Keeping
them in compilable state would require additional manpower, but it
is very probable, that after all the changes they will be utterly
broken, albeit compilable.
P.S. I account any objector as taker of maintainership :)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6
[2]
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps8802/ps5460/product_bulletin_c25-520459.html
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Enterprise_Server#OES-NetWare
[4]
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/novipx/configuration/guide/Novell_IPX_Discontinuation.html
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