Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:43:09 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netware gateway. Message-ID: <199508160013.JAA27080@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508151902.UAA19482@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 15, 95 08:02:07 pm
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Paul Richards stands accused of saying: > You're getting a little ahead yourself, not unusual :-) > > There's only one netware server and there's only a handfull of > Windows boxes that will need to be tcp/ip enabled. Installing trumpet > winsock on them and using packet drivers will be good enough, using > fake internal ip addresses and running socks or some other proxy service > on the FreeBSD box will do the trick. This is for a relatively small > office where they want a small group of staff to have email/WWW access > from their windows boxes across a common modem connection. You're going to try to share the ethernet card between a real-mode packet driver and the Windows ethernet drivers? You're off to a bad start already, but this is really suboptimal unless I'm seriously missing something about your netware setup... > This isn't for an university service, but having recently left an > university where they did exactly this (run IP and IPX traffic on the > same wire) I can confirm that it's a really sub-optimal thing to do. Indeedy. UofA do it, and they spend a fortune on routers keeping it in its place. > Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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