From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 11 08:12:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA08647 for current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:12:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA08638 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 08:12:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA18065; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:12:09 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199609111512.RAA18065@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-) In-Reply-To: <13586.842447217@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 11, 96 06:06:57 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 17:12:08 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've got an IP gateway box which has 5 ethernets plugged into it, > using the de0 and ed0 drivers. One one ethernet is an IPX server > which some IPX clients on another ethernet would very much like to go > to, but I'm not sure how to route this IPX traffic. > > The most obvious technique, of course, would simply be to compile > a kernel with options IPX turned on and then run ``IPXrouted -s /var/log/ipx'', > ... > > Any special incantation which I'm missing? Thanks! > Three things I can think of. Our IPX only support ETHERNET_II framing. NOT 802.3 (yet) You will have to ifconfig each interface that you want to use with IPX, with an IPX network address. These can be randomly chosen except where you already have a Novell server or something else that is configured with an IPX network address. (Each net must be unique though.) You must enable IPX forwarding in the kernel with sysctl. The variable is something like "net.ipx.ipx.forwarding". I'm not at a -cuurent box now. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za