From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 18:57:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00566 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:57:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from molhub.mol.net.my (aimsvan.mol.net.my [202.190.128.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA00555 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 18:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc-31kl1.mol.net.my by molhub.mol.net.my; Fri, 14 Feb 97 10:53:57 +0800 Message-ID: <3303D1DC.6B46@mol.net.my> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:45:48 +0800 From: Andy Reply-To: mfwong@mol.net.my X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions on IPX-to-IP gateway Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I've come across IPX-to-IP gateway products and have read about some recommendation from magazines where Performance Technology's Instant Internet is best rate while BSDI's Internet Gateway is the worst among the 8 products they tested. I have a few questions: 1) Can anyone tell me in more detail about how this IPX-to-IP thingy works ? I know as much as the fact that it replaces winsock.dll with a replacement winsock lib and it receives winsock apps "data" using IPX! This is the part which I do not understand. How is winsock API handled with normal winsock.dll otherwise, I mean for both API call and apps "data", and how those IPX-to-IP handle them ? Can someone point me to more detailed technical description ? 2) In BSDI's literature, it mentions, there will be no dual-stack for the IPX workstation, but what about replacement winsock.dll ? How much RAM is really saved with replacement winsock.dll in real life ? 3) Is the method of IPX-to-IP in 1) above considered protocol translation or not ? What are the differences ? 4) Is anyone working on this for FreeBSD ? Thank you very much ...