Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:09:10 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: All-in-one FreeBSD-based gateway ? Message-ID: <7674.843019750@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:50:03 EST." <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com>
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M C Wong wrote in message ID <199609180350.AA215608604@hp.com>: > Hi, > I wonder are there any efforts on FreeBSD to make it a very > strong competitor against commercial routers (eg Cisco) in the > following areas, and preferably all in one single FreeBSD box: > 1) Novell connectivity to the Internet, ie route IPX backbone > traffic to TCP/IP world and does NAT with one public IP address. > Preferably working with any types of interface, serial, leased, > ISDN etc. Are you wanting IPX translated to IP or IPX encapsulated in IP, transported to the remote end, and then de-encapsulated? For the latter, there is support in the -current IPX implimentation... > 2) PIX-like VPN encryption on the NAT'ed outbound packets. I was toying with something to do something like this, but I'm now in the US, which kinda restricts what I do :-( Damned ITAR. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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