From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 3 14:57:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA25670 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:57:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA25649 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA15966; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:48:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601032248.PAA15966@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: IPX/SPX routing problem (fwd) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 15:48:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601032214.XAA21318@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 3, 96 11:14:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Please tell me what could be wrong. What is the way of bulding routing table > for IPX. 1) Hook your machine to an IPX net. 2) Let it listen to SAP broadcasts. 3) It will generate its own table. 4) If it doesn't, then you aren't getting SAP broadcasts. Part of being an IPX router is to SAP your address and services to all your nets (unless you support SAP restriction) every 55 seconds. If you are a server and someone SAPs a "GetNearestServer" broadcast, you can respond. Since FreeBSD boxes are not NetWare servers, and do not offer services, this will be a non-issue for you. One potential problem is that the card you have may not have a driver that handles promiscuous mode and/or broadcasts correctly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.