Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 21:42:00 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@angel.cids.org.za> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-) Message-ID: <199609111942.VAA16586@angel.cids.org.za> In-Reply-To: <199609111821.LAA22152@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Sep 11, 96 11:21:20 am"
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> > I only see one ethernet card configured, but there are 3 entries, > > one for each for 802.3, Ethernet_II and Ethernet_SNAP. Of the > > 3, only the Ethernet_II entry shows a LAN address. > > Your novell server is configured to handle these 3 frame types, that > means just about any Novell client can find the bugger... your > probably using Ethernet_SNAP to support Mac systems. > > To be fully functional your IPX router will need to deal with all > 3 of these frame types. As it stands now the only one supported is > Ethernet_II. > > You could go around and start converting all the clients to Ethernet_II, > which is not a bad idea in itself (makes for sniffing the network a lot > easier :-)). That is true. I'm lucky, I have convinced the people here to run only ETHERNET_II in our building a long time ago. But then we don't have any Mac's. > > If you can convert all the clients on the otherside of the router to > be using Ethernet_II your will be up and running with the current code. > This can easily be done for most current Novell clients (ODI and NDIS > drivers), the other NetX stuff is not so easy, and if I remeber correctly > you folks have all the sales systems running NetX.exe over packet drivers. :-( > If I remember correctly the packet drivers have a "-n" option to switch from the default (for them) ETHERNET_II to 802.3. So you should only need to take that out. John -- John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
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