From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 17:34:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA22661 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22650 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:34:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from misery.sdf.com ([204.244.213.33]) by misery.sdf.com with SMTP id <963-252>; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:58:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:57:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Chris Coleman cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing In-Reply-To: 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, 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? You can't route between IP and IPX. They are incompatible. You can can however tunnel IPX across an IP network. > 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. This would involve a proxy-type service (ex. Catapult for NT; see ftp.microsoft.com). > 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. > > Any one have a good method of finding an ip address conflict? Force people to use DHCP. It isn't perfect, but better than letting a bunch of newbies configure their own systems. A proxy like cached or squid, which both work under FreeBSD could also solve your address shortage problem. The entire 10.x.x.x block has been reserved for non-connected sites, and these addresses could be given to given to internal campus machines. Proxy servers like cached can also reduce Internet traffic, and speed access to common pages. > Thanks in advance > > Chris Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) > Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 > Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor > Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. > > Tom