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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:45:28 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPX routing?
Message-ID:  <199707140915.SAA09440@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707131647.SAA28393@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Jul 13, 97 06:47:59 pm"

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John Hay stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Is there a document anywhere which describes the delicacies of setting
> > up a FreeBSD box as an IPX router?
> 
> Nope, except maybe in the mail archives where I have helped a few people
> to get it working. There has been someone who promissed to write it up
> and get into the handbook, but it hasn't happened yet.

Ah.

> At the moment the code in FreeBSD only do Ethernet_II framing, so
> you will have use that on the nets that connects to the FreeBSD box.

Ok.  That would have been more or less impossible. 8(

> I do have code that do the Novel 802.3 protocol, but it only works
> on the ed0 type cards because I use link1 in ifconfig to set it
> and most other cards use that for something else like switching
> 10BT on/off.

Erk.  Do I take it then that it's not possible to do the 802.[23] protocols
as well as Ethernet_II simultaneously on the same interface?

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