On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:28:13 -0400, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
There are still isolated pockets of devices out there speaking IPX, DECnet, Appletalk, etc
Indeed. I'm one of them. (rarely) ... IPX managed print server. It speaks IP, but cannot be managed by IP. I'd throw it away, but it functions as a two port serial terminal server as well. (2 parallel, 2 serial) I don't have any true appletalk (or localtalk!) hardware anymore. But I know where there's a palet of them. :-) I still have MCA token-ring cards for an RS/6000 (and the RS/6000.) I'm just waiting for the NCDOT to need one to recoup a wad of tax money.
or their traffic passes through other devices that encapsulate and de-encapsulate it in IP to allow it to be transported.
Ahhhh, the "internet in a box" IPX-IP gateway device. God, how we hated those things. But some companies refused to install an IP stack, 'tho they'd install the IPX "IP app" suite. (late '90s)