From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 15:02:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA13314 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:02:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA13306 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:02:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15055; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:02:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08503; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:02:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32923C92.3608@vailsys.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:02:42 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Coleman CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris Coleman wrote: > I work at a local community college. We have two FreeBSD boxes running > all of the internet services. > > My question is: Does Freebsd support ipx to ip routing. I know that BSDi > does. (And they want $6,000 for their system because of it.) > > Do we have any plans for implementing it? > > We need it to solve two problems. number one, we are running out of ip > addresses on campus. We want to eliminate most of them and make them use > ipx routed through a FBSD box to communicate through the internet. Huh? Where do you want your IPX traffic to go once it hits the router? > And we want to eliminate the need for so many ip addresses so that we > can get rid of all the ip address conflicts that we can't seem to trace > down. Why not just set up one or more proxy hosts between your local net and the Internet? It's a common way of a)conserving Internet addresses and b) protecting a LAN from the Internet. Your Internet IP addresses, which are in short supply, go on the perimeter net where you will only have a handful of interfaces. Then use the RFC 1918 addresses for the rest of your network. I like to use the 192.168.x.x addresses, using one Class C per segment. > Any one have a good method of finding an ip address conflict? Use arpwatch and/or tcpdump in arp mode.