Date: Mon, 14 Aug 95 12:04:06 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, paul@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netware gateway. Message-ID: <9508141804.AA16504@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508130912.SAA18403@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 13, 95 06:42:46 pm
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> Nope. Run winsock stacks doing native IP over ethernet alongside the > IPX/whatever stack, put the FreeBSD box on the ethernet with the serial > link out; put all of the internal systems on a fake IP net, disable > routing on the FreeBSD box, and run a socks proxy on it. > > Presto; instant firewall, easy net access. You can run all your mail > on the FreeBSD box using pop or imap, and with appropriate clients > you can still talk out. You can put the CERN proxy httpd on the > FreeBSD system as well, and take advantage of an organisation-wide > web cache. > > This is easy to set up, and a very popular use for FreeBSD systems around > here. It neglects the additional negotiation that takes place for the NOVIX tunneling NLM. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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