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Subject: Re: Netware gateway.
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 12:53:34 +0930 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <9508141804.AA16504@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 14, 95 12:04:06 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Nope.  Run winsock stacks doing native IP over ethernet alongside the 
> > IPX/whatever stack, put the FreeBSD box on the ethernet with the serial 
> > link out; put all of the internal systems on a fake IP net, disable
> > routing on the FreeBSD box, and run a socks proxy on it.
> > 
> > Presto; instant firewall, easy net access.  You can run all your mail
> > on the FreeBSD box using pop or imap, and with appropriate clients
> > you can still talk out.  You can put the CERN proxy httpd on the 
> > FreeBSD system as well, and take advantage of an organisation-wide
> > web cache.
> > 
> > This is easy to set up, and a very popular use for FreeBSD systems around 
> > here.
> 
> It neglects the additional negotiation that takes place for the NOVIX
> tunneling NLM.

IIRC, the desire was to connect a pile of WfW boxes on a Novell network to
the 'net, not to bridge two Novell networks across the 'net.

Using IPX/SPX for any part of this is a Bad Idea, on the KISS principle.

> 					Terry Lambert

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