From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 18 15:34:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA12074 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA12065 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab11895; 18 Feb 96 17:24 GMT Received: from wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk ([194.70.221.1]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa09636; 18 Feb 96 17:20 GMT Received: from 192.153.153.24.webfactory.co.uk (kiss.demon.co.uk [158.152.97.57]) by wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA23666 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:20:04 GMT Message-Id: <199602181720.RAA23666@wbsmail.zipmail.co.uk> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: Phil Taylor Organization: Lan Systems To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 17:12:04 +0000 Subject: BSDi : Internet Gateway for Novell Networks Reply-to: phil@zipmail.co.uk Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 */