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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:52:26 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        paul@freebsd.org
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, terry@cs.weber.edu, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netware gateway.
Message-ID:  <199508141422.XAA21609@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199508141127.MAA00805@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Aug 14, 95 12:27:15 pm

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Paul Richards stands accused of saying:
> > Nope.  Run winsock stacks doing native IP over ethernet alongside the 
> > IPX/whatever stack, put the FreeBSD box on the ethernet with the serial 
> > link out; put all of the internal systems on a fake IP net, disable
> > routing on the FreeBSD box, and run a socks proxy on it.
> 
> This was proposal no 1. I wasn't sure how many socks-aware winsock
> clients there are though. I've been told that Netscape is. In fact, what

All that you need.  Netscape will do almost everything that you want anyway;
for news & mail you'll have it on the BSD box already, so no proxy is
needed, and if you use the cern httpd, you won't need to socksify your
web browsers.  

C-Kermit for OS/2 is socks-aware, I'd guess that the DOS version may well
be too.

> I'll probably do is use Novix on the Netware side so that I don't have to
> worry about allocating ip addresses to each workstation. Novix
> seems to do teh tunneling job pretty well, it's just the asynchronous
> NLM which really sucks.

That's still awfully bogus.  Allocating addresses isn't really all that
difficult, and the performance difference will be pretty radical - bear
in mind what Terry had to say about scheduling on the server.

>   Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 

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