From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 25 11:36:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA11545 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:36:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA11540 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 11:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA03064; Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:34:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601251934.MAA03064@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: NetBUI and/or IPX routing? To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:34:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: swaits@pr.erau.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601250208.NAA19814@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Jan 25, 96 01:08:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This raises a question of mine .. is it possible to have one Novell server > on one ethernet segment and none on another (workstation) side ? I gather > that I need to specify a different Novell "network number" on each side of > the FreeBSD box but does this prevent me from using a "far" server as my > nearest ? The "GetNearestServer" packet is a brodcast packet local to the segment the station is on. It is expected that you will have at least one local server per segment. You *could* proxy-respond if you were a brouter *and* you knew there was no server going to respond. Typically, you set a delay for server response preference. That way, if ther is a local server, it will respond before you do and the client will pick it instead. If you did proxy respond, you'd have to lie about your address, which would convince the client it was on a segment other than the one it was really on. Responding to such a client and then expecting it to use NCP's over you as a local brouter to get to the real segment would probably cause a hop count conflict unless you really went whole hog, so I'd expect a number of console messages on the real Novell server that you proxied to. Let's just simplify this as: Not Recommended. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.