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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 1996 09:36:20 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-) 
Message-ID:  <14411.842459780@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Sep 1996 17:12:08 %2B0200." <199609111512.RAA18065@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> 

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> Our IPX only support ETHERNET_II framing. NOT 802.3 (yet)

Hmmm.  I'm not sure which we're using, I imagine there's some Novell
server command for figuring it out though?

> 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.)

Hmmm.  Command syntax for this?  I've looked at the ifconfig man page
till I'm blue and I still don't see how this is done. :-(

> 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.

net.ipx.ipx.ipxforwarding it is - thanks!

					Jordan



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