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Subject: Re: Netware gateway.
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In-Reply-To: <199508151902.UAA19482@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 15, 95 08:02:07 pm
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Paul Richards stands accused of saying:
> You're getting a little ahead yourself, not unusual :-)
> 
> There's only one netware server and there's only a handfull of
> Windows boxes that will need to be tcp/ip enabled. Installing trumpet
> winsock on them and using packet drivers will be good enough, using
> fake internal ip addresses and running socks or some other proxy service
> on the FreeBSD box will do the trick. This is for a relatively small
> office where they want a small group of staff to have email/WWW access
> from their windows boxes across a common modem connection.

You're going to try to share the ethernet card between a real-mode packet
driver and the Windows ethernet drivers?  You're off to a bad start
already, but this is really suboptimal unless I'm seriously missing
something about your netware setup...

> This isn't for an university service, but having recently left an
> university where they did exactly this (run IP and IPX traffic on the
> same wire) I can confirm that it's a really sub-optimal thing to do.

Indeedy.  UofA do it, and they spend a fortune on routers keeping it in
its place.

>   Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 

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