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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 1996 07:49:04 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does IPX routing work? ... Of course. :-)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.93.960912074731.18328A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199609112000.NAA05402@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Three things I can think of.
> > 
> > Our IPX only support ETHERNET_II framing. NOT 802.3 (yet)
> > 
> 
> You can not support 802.3 framing in a Novell IPX environment.
> 
> Novell implemented 802.3 encapsulation incorrectly.  It is only the
> coincidence that the packet type for IPX is an illegal length which
> allows it to be detected and function at all.
> 
> You will need to similarly hack the IPX for FreeBSD if you wish to
> support what Novell calls 802.3 -- there is no encapsulation header,
> and this is the implementation error.

I thought it was just implemented before IEEE fully defined it.

Regards,


Mike Hancock




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