From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 14 02:44:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA10970 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:44:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA10963 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.6/8.8.5) id LAA13223; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:43:25 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199707140943.LAA13223@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: IPX routing? In-Reply-To: <199707140915.SAA09440@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 14, 97 06:45:28 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:43:25 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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( Why? I don't know of any clients that can't do Ethernet_II framing. > > > 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? It isn't technically impossible to do it. We can probably add code to FreeBSD to do it. The way to do it is like Netware servers to make each frame a seperate subnet. It is a waste on a big network though, because all your ipx broadcasts will have to be done once for each frame type on an interface. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za