Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:45:28 +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: <199707140915.SAA09440@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707131647.SAA28393@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Jul 13, 97 06:47:59 pm"
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John Hay stands accused of saying: > > > > Is there a document anywhere which describes the delicacies of setting > > up a FreeBSD box as an IPX router? > > Nope, except maybe in the mail archives where I have helped a few people > to get it working. There has been someone who promissed to write it up > and get into the handbook, but it hasn't happened yet. Ah. > 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( > 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? > John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za -- ]] 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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