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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing
To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius)
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:53:00 -0700 (MST)
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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.)
> > 
> > Do we have any plans for implementing it?
> 
>   You can't route between IP and IPX.  They are incompatible.  You can
> can however tunnel IPX across an IP network.

Sidebar: NetWare/IP uses encapsulated IPX on a native IP transport;
it is impossible to get away from IPX if you are using NetWare.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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