Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 09:52:00 +0100 From: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPX routing Message-ID: <342A2630.57FCC38A@poptart.org> References: <199709241939.VAA24970@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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John Hay wrote:
>
> [stuff...]
>
> Remember that the standard FreeBSD IPX code only supports Ethernet_II
> framing, not any of the others.
>
Yeah - that could be a problem - the netware servers use 802.3. But I
saw a message in the archives about using sysctrl to change the framing
on FreeBSD but can't get it to work.. Is this missing from the current
distributions? Also, the odd thing is that I can see routing packets
when I start IPXrouted with the -t option. Does this mean that these
packets it's receiving are ethternet-II packets ? And the final thing
is that when I configure the two interfaces, they both appear to have
the same host portion of the address:
[before the IPX config stuff...]
bash-2.00$ ifconfig -a
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 194.207.78.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
ep1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
bash-2.00$ ifconfig ep0 ipx 0x1234
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 194.207.51.241 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
ipx 1234H.a024763b19
ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
ep1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
bash-2.00$ ifconfig ep1 ipx 0xb003
lp0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ep0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 194.207.51.241 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 194.207.78.255
ipx 1234H.a024763b19
ether 00:a0:24:76:3b:19
ep1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ipx b003.a024763b19
ether 00:60:08:09:13:6d
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
As you can see, after I configure the second interface (ep1), it's host
address portion is the same as the host-address portion on ep0. Is this
correct?
Thanks for your time.
Scot Elliott.
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