Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:52:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: chris@bb.cc.wa.us (Chris Coleman) Cc: hal@vailsys.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing(translation) Message-ID: <199611200222.MAA04728@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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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Chris Coleman stands accused of saying: > > 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. Uh. You fail to understand. Read the previous response wrt. talking IP on a reserved address range on your internal network to a proxy server on your BSD box(es). > 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 are probably thinking of ip-in-ipx, which is totally different from what you were trying to describe. I don't know if anyone is bothering with this, as ipx is in many peoples' minds a dead protocol. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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