Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 17:57:49 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Chris Coleman <root@bb.cc.wa.us> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ipx to ip routing Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961119174812.649A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961119134756.404A-100000@aries.bb.cc.wa.us>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, 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? You can't route between IP and IPX. They are incompatible. You can can however tunnel IPX across an IP network. > 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. This would involve a proxy-type service (ex. Catapult for NT; see ftp.microsoft.com). > 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. > > Any one have a good method of finding an ip address conflict? Force people to use DHCP. It isn't perfect, but better than letting a bunch of newbies configure their own systems. A proxy like cached or squid, which both work under FreeBSD could also solve your address shortage problem. The entire 10.x.x.x block has been reserved for non-connected sites, and these addresses could be given to given to internal campus machines. Proxy servers like cached can also reduce Internet traffic, and speed access to common pages. > Thanks in advance > > Chris Coleman (chris@aries.bb.cc.wa.us) > Computer Support Technician I (509)-766-8873 > Big Bend Community College Internet Instructor > Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. > > Tom
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