Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:19:00 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX routing? Message-ID: <199707140949.TAA09576@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707140943.LAA13223@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Jul 14, 97 11:43:25 am"
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John Hay stands accused of saying: > > > > > 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. Well, when I asked why half of their workstations used 802.2 and the other half used 802.3, they complained that it was "too hard" to have them all work the same. Getting them to move all of them to Ethernet_II would, I think, have been difficult without a Very Good Argument. If you have one, I'm all ears of course 8) > 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. Ok, so it's not that there's some hardware evil involved in the different frame types. Understood. I would say from my experience it would be a Very Good Thing, actually 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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