From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 26 15:05:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27308 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:05:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from messiah.cableinet.net (messiah.cableinet.net [194.117.157.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA27303 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:05:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.wild@cableinet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 23038 invoked from network); 27 Nov 1997 00:08:21 -0000 Received: from lions.cableinet.net (193.38.113.5) by messiah with SMTP; 27 Nov 1997 00:08:21 -0000 Received: from zebedee.local (usr95-gat.cableinet.co.uk [194.117.153.105]) by lions.cableinet.net (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI) via ESMTP id WAA01687 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:20:44 GMT Received: from dougal (dougal.local [10.0.128.68]) by zebedee.local (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA15961 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:36:30 GMT Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:08:14 +0000 From: Mark To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPX router problems Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <199711261900.VAA13202@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> X-Mailer: Messenger v1.02 for RISC OS X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.59d Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199711261900.VAA13202@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> you wrote: > Mark, > > > > One problem might be because the FreeBSD IPX code only supports > > > Ethernet_II framing, which is not the default for Netware servers. > > > The default for Netware 3.x is 802.3 framing and I think for v4.x > > > it is 802.2SNAP, but I'm not 100% sure. The easiest if you only > > > have W95 machines will be to change the server to use Ethernet_II > > > framing. (The default 95 setup will sense that automatically.) If > > > you have older Win3.X machines and diskless machines it won't be > > > that easy. If you can't do Ethernet_II framing, I do have a patch > > > to enable 802.3 framing on the FreeBSD box. > > > > I was incorrectly told that Ethernet II was being used, but infact it's > > 802.3 (Netware 3.12). I also have the requirement of forwarding IP > > packets across the two interfaces and I gather from your previous > > postings on this subject that it's not currently possible to have > > two frame types on the same interface. Is this still the case? > > Unfortunately there's no chance of moving to Eth. II. > > FreeBSD currently can't do more than one IPX frame type on an interface. > You can use this patch to be able to do 802.3 on FreeBSD. It provides > a sysctl to switch between Ethernet_II (default) and 802.3. Remember > that it will switch it for IPX on all the interfaces. > > John Many thanks for that John, hopefully that will solve my problem. I was also hoping to get ipx going over ppp for dial in access. Does pppd or user ppp support ipx at all? and if so what do I need to do to get it going? The dial-in machine is also W95. (I have got dial in working already but only for tcp/ip) Thanks, Mark. --