Editing IPX/SPX (section)

===Others===
For several years, Novell supplied a native NetWare client for [[OS/2]]. This was similar in structure to the client for DOS.

Novell also published an IPX client for [[Classic Mac OS]] called MacIPX.<ref>[http://www.primarycomputer.net/english/NW5/USCOMM/RTCN_ENU/DATA/HXUW8MXG.HTM] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724020546/http://www.primarycomputer.net/english/NW5/USCOMM/RTCN_ENU/DATA/HXUW8MXG.HTM |date=2011-07-24 }} Some notes on MacIPX internetworking, formerly at [http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw5/docui/#../uscomm/rtcn_enu/data/hxuw8mxg.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823195310/http://www.novell.com/documentation/nw5/docui/#../uscomm/rtcn_enu/data/hxuw8mxg.html |date=2010-08-23 }}</ref> This was not only used by the Mac NetWare client, but also by games such as [[Doom (1993 video game)|Doom]] and [[Warcraft III]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100820002451/http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=21196 Blizzard Support]. Web.archive.org (2010-08-20). Retrieved on 2013-09-27.</ref> for multiplayer play.

Implementations have been written for various flavors of [[Unix]]/[[Linux]], both by Novell and other vendors. In particular, Novell's [[UnixWare]] supported IPX/SPX natively. However, while UnixWare could act as a client to NetWare servers, and applications could optionally support IPX/SPX as a transport, UnixWare did not provide the ability to share files or printers on a NetWare network without an additional software package. [[Open Enterprise Server#OES-Linux|Open Enterprise Server - Linux]] does not support IPX/SPX.<ref>http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch15.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105111004/https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/linag2/book/ch15.html |date=2022-11-05 }} (note however that the statement "Alan Cox first developed IPX support for the Linux kernel in 1985" must be a misprint because it predates the kernel itself)</ref> The Linux kernel used to support IPX/SPX, but SPX support was removed in 2002,<ref>https://lwn.net/Articles/7208/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803163939/https://lwn.net/Articles/7208/ |date=2022-08-03 }} (see: "Remove SPX and the last typedefs in IPX, create ipx_hdr")</ref> and IPX support was removed in 2018.<ref>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a2e838d28cff6718a0bdf66164465402f8e40ed {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105110956/https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7a2e838d28cff6718a0bdf66164465402f8e40ed |date=2022-11-05 }} ("staging: ipx: delete it from the tree")</ref>

The open source [[FreeBSD]] operating system includes an IPX/SPX stack, to support both a NetWare file system client, nwfs, as well as NetWare server using Mars NWE<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mars_nwe&stype=all&sektion=all |title=FreeBSD ports info on Mars NWE |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-date=2022-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105110957/https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mars_nwe&stype=all&sektion=all |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.freshports.org/net/mars_nwe/ |title=Freshports info on Mars NWE |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-date=2022-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105111012/https://www.freshports.org/net/mars_nwe/ |url-status=live }}</ref> (providing some functionality<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch17s03.html |title=Novell's comments on Mars NWE |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-date=2024-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601041058/http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch17s03.html |url-status=live }}</ref>). [[OpenBSD]] dropped support with version 4.2,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.openbsd.org/plus42.html |title=OpenBSD 4.2 changes |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-date=2011-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110412185837/http://www.openbsd.org/plus42.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=118112463718127&w=2 |title=Removal of IPX from OpenBSD |access-date=2010-05-09 |archive-date=2022-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105110958/https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=118112463718127&w=2 |url-status=live }}</ref> and 4.1 needed some work to compile with IPX.<ref>[http://software.itags.org/bsd/10745/ Berkeley Software Design (BSD): building kernel support with ipx fails] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726194806/http://software.itags.org/bsd/10745/ |date=July 26, 2011 }}</ref>