From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 14 19:16:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29297 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:16:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29285 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA13392; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:44:48 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707150214.LAA13392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: IPX routing? In-Reply-To: <199707141842.LAA01763@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 14, 97 11:42:15 am" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:44:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > > At the moment the code in FreeBSD only do Ethernet_II framing, so > > > > you will have use that on the nets that connects to the FreeBSD box. > > > > > > Ok. That would have been more or less impossible. 8( > > > > Why? I don't know of any clients that can't do Ethernet_II framing. > > All clients using Novell supplied "remote reset" (NetWare based > remote boot protocol to boot from NetWare servers) are hard-coded > as 802.3 clients. Oh. That sinks that idea; we were trying to "remote reset" clients across the router too. Booger. > Yes, you can get 3rd party ROM's, but that's an additional expense. Hmm. How about getting the Netware server to gateway DHCP requests? > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[