From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 18:15:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26139 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:15:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26051 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28564; Fri, 1 May 1998 01:37:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805010037.BAA28564@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Doug White cc: WOLF , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:57:28 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 01:37:07 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, WOLF wrote: > > > I was wondering if FreeBSD supported IPX networking over modem? If > > so, what programs should I use to get dial-up to another computer? If I use > > IPX can I route requests from other computers on my LAN? > > Oh, Brian... > > It depends if ppp supports this. I don't have access to anything that runs IPX or talks IPXCP :-( Currently, the tun device only does IP. It would be fairly easy to fix this, but in order to stay compatible, I'd like to add a new IOCTL to put it into ``give me headers'' mode. I've mentioned this a few times on -hackers, but nobody's taken the bait (even Julian E side-stepped it ;). As I say though, the real problem is that I don't have anything that does IPX. I've got one NT box here, and I've got a 2.5" disk with Win95 on it gathering dust, so I guess I could eventually get it up & running..... It's more likely that pppd supports IPX - I've heard talk that it does IPXCP, so assuming the FreeBSD kernel will do IPX through the ppp device.... > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message