Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:40:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: chris@bb.cc.wa.us (Chris Coleman) Cc: hal@vailsys.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing(translation) Message-ID: <199611200140.SAA10082@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961119160039.1200A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us> from "Chris Coleman" at Nov 19, 96 04:05:21 pm
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> > > 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. This is called an "IP Proxy Gateway", and requires both a service agent on the gateway box, and a "WINSOCK.DLL" or "WSOCK32.DLL" on the client machine that knows how to connect to the proxy server over the transport. As a point of general information, the IANA is not responsible for assigning well-known-sockets on IPX (or SPX)... Novell itself is. In order to get an assignment, your application must be NDS (NetWare Directory Services) aware. As another point of interest, the only value in NDS in this case in in service advertisement for the proxy gateway service. To get around this problem (requirement), most third party developers have been using IPX diagnostic broadcasts to locate servers. This is very dirty, and Novell is bound to do something to stop it in the next release or so. > 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. You up for writing a winsock? If you were to write a winsock, and you made it use SOCKS to connect to a SOCKS IP Proxy Gateway, your name would be heralded from the tops of towers, in many circles, since it would mean the death of the hated "aliasing". BTW: The company I work for is one of the companies who produces a commercial product like this. There's not a chance in the world that they would publically document their wire protocol. 8-(. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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