I know I say this a lot, but I *love* Envoy. I’d really like to see it re-released, either commercially or as freeware/open source, or, better yet, integrated into the OS. It is phenomenal software, and absolutely essential if you have multiple Amigas on a LAN.
I agree with much of this, and of course it would be a huge advantage if it was open sourced so that certain components also could be implemented for other platforms and operating systems. The big gripe with Envoy used to be that it could not co-exist with TCP/IP stacks, as it grabbed the sana2 device for its own use. I know that in the latest versions this was changed, but if it was changed so that it could share the sana2 device with a TCP/IP stack, or if it can actually run as a service on top of TCP/IP, I don't know. Also there was the issue with the reversed user database, from what I recall it uses UID=0 for "nobody" and UID=65536 for its "root" equivalent user. All this could of course be fixed and worked around in a Fresh and New open source version.
