From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 19 18:23:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA25063 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:23:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA25058 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 18:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA04728; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:52:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611200222.MAA04728@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing(translation) In-Reply-To: from Chris Coleman at "Nov 19, 96 04:05:21 pm" To: chris@bb.cc.wa.us (Chris Coleman) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:52:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: hal@vailsys.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[