From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 06:53:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA24928 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA24921 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 06:53:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-110.cdmo.com (dialup-110.cdmo.com [204.141.95.167]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA03512; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:52:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:52:35 -0500 Message-Id: <199601251452.JAA03512@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: michael butler From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: NetBUI and/or IPX routing? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> We will be using Netware and NT between segments. Will this be possible >> in 2.1? > >With NT running SMB (e.g. LANMAN) protocols (e.g. LANMAN) over TCP/IP, you >can do this already. If you wish to use the FreeBSD box as a file server, >then chase up the SAMBA port. > >> How about in 2.2? > >AFAIK "-current" has early IPX support although I've not (yet) tried it. > >NETBEUI is unlikely to be supported .. ever .. even MS have (effectively) >dropped it seriously reducing anyone's interest in making it fly. > >This raises a question of mine .. is it possible to have one Novell server >on one ethernet segment and none on another (workstation) side ? I gather >that I need to specify a different Novell "network number" on each side of >the FreeBSD box but does this prevent me from using a "far" server as my >nearest ? Emerging Technologies has an add-on product which will route IPX traffic between ethernet segments (see www.etinc.com/server.htm). Currently, the product is only available in our Comm board driver, however. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX