Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:04:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> To: "Cambria, Mike" <mcambria@lucent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SNA Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9811231002440.2822-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <75ADD7496F0BD211ADC000104B8846CF056AC1@Rerun.Lucentctc.com>
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FreeBSD wouldn't need DLSw to simply bridge SNA/NetBIOS. It would just need transparent bridging support on interfaces. I think this has been merged into 2.2-stable. For tunneling, it would need STUN or DLSw support. Joe Clarke On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Cambria, Mike wrote: > > Can you be more specific? What type of SNA traffic? > > There are no SNA stacks on FreeBSD known to me. In order to route > traditional SNA (i.e. Subarea Node, Peripheral Node) FreeBSD would need to > implement a Subarea Node. > > To route APPN/HPR, FreeBSD would need to implement an APPN/HPR Network Node. > > To tunnel/bridge SNA (or NetBIOS), FreeBSD would need a DLSw implementation. > > Since APPN/HPR now runs *natively* on IP, it might be possible for the SNA > nodes on each side of your FreeBSD systems to use HPR/IP, thus passing IP > through your FreeBSD systems like other IP traffic. Support for HPR/IP is > no more than a year old. All current products from IBM now support it. If > you find out more details (see original question on top), I can advise from > there. > > Regards, > MikeC > > Michael C. Cambria Lucent Technologies > SNA Product Development Bell Labs Innovations > Voice: (978) 287 - 2807 300 Baker Avenue > Fax: (978) 287 - 2810 Concord, Massachusetts 01742 > Internet: mcambria@lucent.com <mailto:mcambria@lucent.com> > > -----Original Message----- > From: majordom@FreeBSD.ORG [SMTP:majordom@FreeBSD.ORG] > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 3:32 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: SNA > > Has anyone used a tcp wrapper for passing SNA across a dialup router? I need > to connect two networks with two modems and pass SNA from one side to > another. > Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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