From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 28 8:24:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81ABB37B400 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C1443E42 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7SFOGI51849; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:24:16 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208281524.g7SFOGI51849@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: IPX tunnel through IP In-Reply-To: <1030545423.350.8.camel@pinky> from Michael Burke at "Aug 28, 2002 11:37:03 am" To: mburke@isn.net (Michael Burke) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 17:24:16 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm looking to bridge an IPX network at a remote location to the local > IPX network, and the only method of communication is TCP/IP. Locally, I > have a FreeBSD server, and I intend to use one at the remote location > too. > > Looking in LINT, I see: > > options IPX #IPX/SPX communications > protocols > options IPXIP #IPX in IP encapsulation (not > available) > options IPTUNNEL #IP in IPX encapsulation (not > available) > > Which implies that that's out of the picture. However, looking in > usr/src/sys/netipx/ I see ipx_tun.c for encapsulating IP in IPX which is > empty and marked "not implemented", while ipx_ip.c for encapsulating IPX > in IP seems to be fairly complete and nothing other than LINT saying > it's not done. (this given that I am not even remotely familiar with the > kernel or with IPX, so I'm probably way off here) > > Does anyone know about the status of this, or another method to do IPX > through IP -- tun interfaces and generic tunnelling or anything? I can't > seem to find enough info about this. IPXIP did work years ago. I used it between two FreeBSD boxes. I haven't used in ages though, so I don't know if it did rot with time. The "not available" next to it is probably a lie, because I was too lazy to document how to use it and so left that in to scare people off. :-) If you search in the mail archives, you should find how to configure it. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message