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From: John Hay <jhay@angel.cids.org.za>
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Subject: Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 18:54:45 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <14411.842459780@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Sep 11, 96 09:36:20 am"
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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 should be able to see it in the autoexec.ncf file, where the lan
driver is loaded.

> 
> > 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. :-(

ifconfig ed0 ipx 0xabcd1234

Hmmm. I should probably add knobs to sysconfig and netstart to do these
things?????

> 
> > 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
> 

John
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John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za