svn commit: r263140 - in head: . contrib/mdocml etc etc/defaults etc/mtree etc/rc.d gnu/usr.bin/groff/tmac include lib lib/libipx release/picobsd/bridge release/picobsd/qemu rescue/rescue sbin/ifco...

[Slawa Olhovchenkov]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 02:58:48AM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> Author: glebius
> Date: Fri Mar 14 02:58:48 2014
> New Revision: 263140
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/263140
> 
> Log:
>   Remove IPX support.
>   
>   IPX was a network transport protocol in Novell's NetWare network operating
>   system from late 80s and then 90s. The NetWare itself switched to TCP/IP
>   as default transport in 1998. Later, in this century the Novell Open
>   Enterprise Server became successor of Novell NetWare. The last release
>   that claimed to still support IPX was OES 2 in 2007. Routing equipment
>   vendors (e.g. Cisco) discontinued support for IPX in 2011.

Just for truth: Cisco don't fully discontinued support for IPX in 2011.
In 2011 Cisco discontinued support for IPX only in selected software
lines: 15.1(3)S, 15.2(2)T, 15.1(1)SY, 15.2(1)E, and later.

12.4  supported to January 31, 2016
12.4T supported to November 30, 2016
15.0M supported to April 30, 2017
15.0S don't have EoL/EoS notice
15.1M supported to March 31, 2018
15.2M don't have EoL/EoS notice
15.3M don't have EoL/EoS notice