Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:47:59 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX routing? Message-ID: <199707131647.SAA28393@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199707130323.MAA01113@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 13, 97 12:53:07 pm"
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> > 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. > It was at this point that things came unstuck; adding IPX support to > the kernel was quite straightforward, as was assigning IPX addresses > to the interface. > > Except that one can only assign a single net address to each > interface, and Netware servers insist on using different net addresses > for 802.2 and 802.3 frame types. This isn't discussed in any of the > documentation. 8( > > Next, IPXrouted was started, and in trace mode it was certainly seeing > a lot of relevant traffic, but it wasn't learning any routes from it. > > After much tinkering trying to make various things work, we had to > back the system out and reinstate the Novell server, something that > neither I nor the customer really wanted to do. > > So, any suggestions? I could probably be convinced to roll some > longer words onthe subject if the information was available... > 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. 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. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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