Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:00:54 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-) Message-ID: <199609112000.NAA05402@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199609111512.RAA18065@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Sep 11, 96 05:12:08 pm
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> Three things I can think of. > > Our IPX only support ETHERNET_II framing. NOT 802.3 (yet) > You can not support 802.3 framing in a Novell IPX environment. Novell implemented 802.3 encapsulation incorrectly. It is only the coincidence that the packet type for IPX is an illegal length which allows it to be detected and function at all. You will need to similarly hack the IPX for FreeBSD if you wish to support what Novell calls 802.3 -- there is no encapsulation header, and this is the implementation error. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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