Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:59:22 +0400 From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" <goshik@binep.ac.ru> To: "Malcolm Kay" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>, "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPX problems Message-ID: <034001c366e0$36ab2880$ea2ce9c1@binep.ac.ru> References: <200308192223.34353.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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From: "Malcolm Kay" <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: IPX problems > I wiish to retire a rather aging Linux box which has been providing > (amongst other things) access to a Novell file server. > > The new box has has FreeBSD 4.8 installed and I have recompiled > the kernel with: > options "IPX" > options "NCP" Is NCP useful for IPX? Just asking, i'm not sure... > > And appended to rc.conf > ifconfig_rl0_ipx="ipx 0x0000001B" > ipxgateway_enable="YES" > ipxrouted_enable="YES" Well, i have IPX configured on lo0 also, but i'm running mars_nwe. (See http://people.freebsd.org/~bp/ipxen.html. It's a bit outdated, but still useful.) > > rl0 is also configured for an inet address and ifconfog reports > rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.1.3.230 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.1.3.255 > inet6 fe80::250:fcff:fea8:3e08%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ipx 1b.50fca83e08 > ether 00:50:fc:a8:3e:08 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) > status: active Is the Ethernet frame on Novell server ETHERNET_II? If not, you need to add support for Ethernet frames via kernel config (see LINT) or via kldload if_ef AND configure IPX for particular frame in rc.conf I have: goshik# ifconfig -a sis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet XXX.YYY.ZZZ.235 netmask 0xffffffc0 broadcast XXX.YYY.ZZZ.255 ether 00:a0:cc:a1:c3:71 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active sis0f0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ipx bbbb0000.a0cca1c371 ether 00:a0:cc:a1:c3:71 sis0f1: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:a0:cc:a1:c3:71 sis0f2: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:a0:cc:a1:c3:71 sis0f3: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:a0:cc:a1:c3:71 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ipx aaaa0000.1H goshik# Here sis0f* are clones of sis0 for particular frames, so in your case these will be rl0f0, rl0f1, etc. The corresponding settings in rc.conf: network_interfaces="sis0 sis0f0 lo0" ifconfig_sis0="inet XXX.YYY.ZZZ.235 netmask 255.255.255.192" ifconfig_sis0f0_ipx="ipx 0xbbbb0000" ifconfig_lo0_ipx="ipx 0xaaaa0000.1" 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. > > The problem is that I have not been able to get any of the utilities to find > the server: > > central:202> ipxping PHILHEND > ipxping: could not find server PHILHEND > : syserr = Network is down > > central:203> ncplist s > Can't find any file server > > Am I doing something stupid? > Am I overlooking something? > > Can anyone please help or suggest how I might proceed? Check the above mentioned items... :-) BTW, why didn't you just try mount_nwfs? HTH, Igor > > Malcolm Kay
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