Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:12:04 +0000 From: Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: BSDi : Internet Gateway for Novell Networks Message-ID: <199602181720.RAA23666@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk>
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Just reading the March issue of SCO World 8-( and I came across an
interesting section entitled new products.
One of these was a system called the BSDi Internet gateway for novell
networks. it sells for $1595 for 5 users and comes with www/ftp etc,
but the bit that caught my attention was the fact that it can be used
for leased-line/dialup routing and (if the article is correct) no
tcp/ip support is needed on the local n/w at all !!
quoting the article :
The gateway includes BSDI's 32-bit BSD/OS and enables PC users to run
Winsock 1.1-compliant Internet applications such as e-mail, WWW
browsers, FTP, telnet and newsreaders, without a TCP/IP stack or IP
address for each desktop.
?
I can only assume that they use a windoze based iptunnel or similar
program to achieve this, does anyone else know anything about this ?
Obviously they could proxy web/ftp on the server but how could it
work unless each connection is actually made using the
IP address of the BSD/OS machine and tunnelled through IPX ????
Could be useful if we had something like this in FBSD (or are the IPX
people working on it ?) as you could connect a whole network with a
single IP address and not lose access to the IP based services that
cannot 'easily' be proxied.
Cheers
Phil
/* Phil Taylor (phil@zipmail.co.uk)
LAN Systems - LAN/WAN Specialists */
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