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From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@ardent-hacker.net>
To: Edgar Troudt <edgar@bala.qc.edu>
Subject: Re: IPX to Netware connectivity.
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:55:35 -0500
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I noticed that your address is just the MAC address.  You need the network
number and the MAC address:

for example, if your mac address is:
 00:a0:cc:5b:7c:3d

and your network number is:
 40

your entire address will be

40:00:a0:cc:5b:7c:3d

On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> I am attempting to get a FreeBSD box to connect to a Novell Netware IPX
> server.  After playing around with stuff, I managed to get as far as
> installing NCPLIB from the ports and trying to run it.
> 
> bash-2.04# ncplogin /QC1:mylogin
> Warning: no cfg files found.
> ncplogin: can't find server QC1: syserr = Network is down
> 
> The QC1 server is not down, nor is my computer disconnected from the
> network.  I believe that the problem (somehow) is with my IPX
> configuration.  All I have done is put the following in my /etc/rc.conf
> 
> /etc/rc.conf:
> 	<...>
> 	network_interfaces="xl0 lo0"
> 	<...>
> 	ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"
> 	ifconfig_xl0_ipx="...typed my MAC address for XL0 here..."
> 	ipxgateway_enable="YES"
> 	ipxrouted_enable="YES"
> 	ipxrouted_flags="-s"
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  Also, I haven't yet subscribed to the
> list, so if you could kindly forward any responses to my email
> account.  Thanks for the assistance.	
> 
> 
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Eric F Crist
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