From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 7:31:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (ip-46-094.guate.net [200.12.46.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F78114A12 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:31:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obonilla@voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu) Received: (from obonilla@localhost) by voyager.fisicc-ufm.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA01120; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:32:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from obonilla) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:32:46 -0600 From: Oscar Bonilla To: "Igor B. Bykhalo" Cc: FreeBSD-questions , obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu Subject: Re: IPX Gateway using FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990428083246.A803@fisicc-ufm.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Igor B. Bykhalo on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:53:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 01:53:20PM -0700, Igor B. Bykhalo wrote: > >On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > >> Would it be possible to access an internal novell server (using IPX) > >> from a Win95 machine that connects to the FreeBSD box using the modem > >> and PPP? > > Oscar, if you are still interested, try one of Boris Popov's pages: > > http://dixi.8m.com/ > http://www.butya.kz/~bp > > They contain some useful how-to's on setting up IPX for FreeBSD. > I'll put also some relevant parts from my rc.conf at the end > of this message. > From Boris's Pages: " One major limitation [of FreeBSD's IPX] is a support for only Ethernet_II frame. " > >Doug White wrote: > >I don't know if FreeBSD PPP supports IPX or not. I'm guessing no, since > > So am I. Maybe Brian Somers can shed some light on this... > I guess you both guessed right :) > >> I have no experience whatsoever using IPX, and for what I've heard, > > IPX is not ever routable. > > > >It's routable, but it sucks to route since it doesn't have a strict idea > >of concepts like subnets. > > Hmmm... Probably I got this wrong, but what I have: > > <> > > network_interfaces="ep0 ep1 ep2 lo0 sl0" > [...] > ifconfig_ep0_ipx="ipx aaaa0000" > ifconfig_ep1_ipx="ipx bbbb0000" > ifconfig_ep2_ipx="ipx cccc0000" > [...] > ipxgateway_enable="YES" # Set to YES to enable IPX routing. > ipxrouted_enable="YES" # Set to YES to run the IPX routing daemon. > ipxrouted_flags="-s" # Flags for IPX routing daemon. > ipxnetbios_enable="YES" # YES to enable sharing under IPX. > [...] > > Note last line - I added it by myself (with the corresponding > entry in /etc/rc.network) to enable disks/printers sharing > between my different Ethernet segments in the mixed Win3x/Win9x/WinNT > workstations LAN (sigh...). > > >Your bigger problem is that the dialup link does not support IPX. > > It seems true... What a pity for you 8-( > It's only too true... well the other alternative was to configure TCP/IP on the novell server. I'll talk to the guy that manages that machine and ask him to do it. Thanks a lot folks for all your help! and just to finish the thread... Altough IPX is a (somewhat) routable protocol and FreeBSD can manage to act as an IPX router between two networks, the only support that exists at this time is for Ethernet frames. Regards, -Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message