Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:02:42 -0600 From: Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com> To: Chris Coleman <root@bb.cc.wa.us> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing Message-ID: <32923C92.3608@vailsys.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961119134756.404A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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Chris Coleman wrote: > I work at a local community college. We have two FreeBSD boxes running > all of the internet services. > > My question is: Does Freebsd support ipx to ip routing. I know that BSDi > does. (And they want $6,000 for their system because of it.) > > Do we have any plans for implementing it? > > We need it to solve two problems. number one, we are running out of ip > addresses on campus. We want to eliminate most of them and make them use > ipx routed through a FBSD box to communicate through the internet. Huh? Where do you want your IPX traffic to go once it hits the router? > And we want to eliminate the need for so many ip addresses so that we > can get rid of all the ip address conflicts that we can't seem to trace > down. Why not just set up one or more proxy hosts between your local net and the Internet? It's a common way of a)conserving Internet addresses and b) protecting a LAN from the Internet. Your Internet IP addresses, which are in short supply, go on the perimeter net where you will only have a handful of interfaces. Then use the RFC 1918 addresses for the rest of your network. I like to use the 192.168.x.x addresses, using one Class C per segment. > Any one have a good method of finding an ip address conflict? Use arpwatch and/or tcpdump in arp mode.
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