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From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: NetBUI and/or IPX routing?
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:49:04 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199601251934.MAA03064@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 25, 96 12:34:01 pm
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Hmmmm.

IPXrouted will answer SAP and RIP requests, so you won't have problems if
you have a server on one net and hosts (IPX) on the other. The handling of
SAP and RIP requests is described in the "IPX Router Specification" that is
available from Novell.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za

> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> The "GetNearestServer" packet is a brodcast packet local to the segment
> the station is on.
> 
> It is expected that you will have at least one local server per segment.
> 
> You *could* proxy-respond if you were a brouter *and* you knew there
> was no server going to respond.
> 
> Typically, you set a delay for server response preference.  That way,
> if ther is a local server, it will respond before you do and the client
> will pick it instead.
> 
> If you did proxy respond, you'd have to lie about your address, which
> would convince the client it was on a segment other than the one it was
> really on.  Responding to such a client and then expecting it to use
> NCP's over you as a local brouter to get to the real segment would
> probably cause a hop count conflict unless you really went whole hog,
> so I'd expect a number of console messages on the real Novell server
> that you proxied to.
> 
> Let's just simplify this as: Not Recommended.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
>