From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 22:19:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA01696 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 22:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01685 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 22:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13009; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 07:19:08 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199607030519.HAA13009@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: IPX routing To: andi@actcom.co.il (Andi Gutmans) Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 07:19:08 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960701183322.006fc9c4@mail.actcom.co.il> from Andi Gutmans at "Jul 1, 96 09:33:22 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hey, > > Has anyone used FreeBSD successfully as an ipx gateway? I've been using a > linux machine to act as a gateway for a 16 pc novel farm, so the linux > machine does both the ipx and tcp/ip forwarding. Can FreeBSD do the same > with IPX? What version supports it? > You will need FreeBSD-current. It does work although there is some problems with Win95 that sends odd length packets. Just remember to: give all the interfaces ipx addresses with the ifconfig command. switch ipx routing on with the sysctl variable "net.ipx.ipx.ipxforwarding". And run IPXrouted to exchange ipx RIP and SAP information. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za