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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 11:44:48 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPX routing?
Message-ID:  <199707150214.LAA13392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199707141842.LAA01763@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 14, 97 11:42:15 am"

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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying:
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Ok.  That would have been more or less impossible. 8(
> > 
> > Why? I don't know of any clients that can't do Ethernet_II framing.
> 
> All clients using Novell supplied "remote reset" (NetWare based
> remote boot protocol to boot from NetWare servers) are hard-coded
> as 802.3 clients.

Oh.  That sinks that idea; we were trying to "remote reset" clients
across the router too.  Booger.

> Yes, you can get 3rd party ROM's, but that's an additional expense.

Hmm.  How about getting the Netware server to gateway DHCP requests?

> 					Terry Lambert

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