From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 16:11:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17913 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:11:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us (root@[208.8.136.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA17908 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA01253; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:05:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 16:05:21 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Coleman To: Hal Snyder cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing(translation) In-Reply-To: <32923C92.3608@vailsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Hal Snyder wrote: > > 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.) oops, I really meant ipx to ip TRANSLATION. I want to only have one host using a ip address and all the others using ipx (or somthing similar) to talk to the internet. Each computer would be mapped to by the MAC address on the ethernet card. All communications with the internet would go through FBSD host. > > Do we have any plans for implementing it? BSDI and the Novell have it. There are a few commercial places that have it also. But Since we already use Freebsd, I was hoping a cool solution.