From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 9 19:38:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA06419 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA06410 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA04838; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:38:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 19:38:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Jones cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: IPX routing and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <01BC44FB.9C147E00@maryanne.novia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Brian Jones wrote: > I would like to know how many NICs can FreeBSD support (theoretical and > realistically) with IPX and IP routing. My boss is a very big FreeBSD > user but since I am the network guy it falls on me to find this out. > (He didn't know). Also, what type of hardware is required to use > FreeBSD with routing (PCI or can we get by with ISA). 2.2-RELEASE and later supports IPX routing. All you need is two supported Ethernet cards. After that, you have to set 'gateway=yes' in sysconfig, then configure your routing appropriately. You might poke Section 13 in the Handbook, it deals with routing and may be able to help you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major