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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 09:52:00 +0100
From: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>
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To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: IPX routing
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John Hay wrote:
>
>	[stuff...]
> 
> Remember that the standard FreeBSD IPX code only supports Ethernet_II
> framing, not any of the others.
> 

Yeah - that could be a problem - the netware servers use 802.3.  But I
saw a message in the archives about using sysctrl to change the framing
on FreeBSD but can't get it to work..  Is this missing from the current
distributions?  Also, the odd thing is that I can see routing packets
when I start IPXrouted with the -t option.  Does this mean that these
packets it's receiving are ethternet-II packets ?  And the final thing
is that when I configure the two interfaces, they both appear to have
the same host portion of the address:

[before the IPX config stuff...]

bash-2.00$ ifconfig -a
	lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	        inet 194.207.78.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
	        ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
	ep1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        	ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d    
	lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

bash-2.00$ ifconfig ep0 ipx 0x1234
	lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	        inet 194.207.51.241 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
	        ipx 1234H.a024763b19
	        ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
	ep1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        	ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d    
	lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000

bash-2.00$ ifconfig ep1 ipx 0xb003
	lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	        inet 194.207.51.241 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
	        ipx 1234H.a024763b19
	        ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
	ep1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        	ipx b003.a024763b19
        	ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d    
	lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000


As you can see, after I configure the second interface (ep1), it's host
address portion is the same as the host-address portion on ep0.  Is this
correct?


Thanks for your time.

Scot Elliott.