Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:49:04 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, swaits@pr.erau.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NetBUI and/or IPX routing? Message-ID: <199601260849.KAA28170@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199601251934.MAA03064@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 25, 96 12:34:01 pm
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Hmmmm. IPXrouted will answer SAP and RIP requests, so you won't have problems if you have a server on one net and hosts (IPX) on the other. The handling of SAP and RIP requests is described in the "IPX Router Specification" that is available from Novell. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za > > > 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. >
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