From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 00:06:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA09278 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from nervosa.com (root@nervosa.com [192.187.228.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09271 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:06:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from nervosa.com (coredump@onyx.nervosa.com [10.0.0.1]) by nervosa.com (8.7.3/nervosa.com.2) with SMTP id AAA02478; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:05:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 00:05:39 -0800 (PST) From: invalid opcode To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: phil@zipmail.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDi : Internet Gateway for Novell Networks In-Reply-To: <18792.824712223@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 18 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I think it would definitely be a well-regarded feature for FreeBSD if > we supported TCP/IP encapsulation like this. I don't know how much > work is involved, but.. > > Jordan > Isn't it just simple network tunneling with TCP/IP encapsulation into an IPX packet? Basically the souce and dest sites know how to unencapsulate, but the IPX medium doesn't care because it's a valid IPX packet. IPX: now there's an invention we all love =P ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Layne coredump@nervosa.com. IRC: hexonyx http://www.nervosa.com./~coredump