Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 15:24:14 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <paul@netcraft.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netware gateway. Message-ID: <199508111424.PAA18121@server.netcraft.co.uk>
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Ok, here's a problem I've been mulling over for quite a while and I'm not getting anywhere with it. I need to connect a Novell Netware network to the internet through a single dial-up account (Demon in the UK). I evaluated a product called Novix, which you load as an NLM onto the Netware server. I don't know the details of how it does it but I think basically it tunnels tcp/ip connections across spx/ipx so that you can run winsock clients on you windows boxes and they talk to the Novix NLM on the Netware server and then Novix talks SLIP across the modem to the ISP. The big advantage of all this is that only the Novix server needs an ip address, the windows clients don't so the single ip address allocated to the dial-up box is all that's needed. Anyway, Novix's asynchronous NLM sucks big time and is totally incapable of keeping a dial-up connection alive and even if it does it can get into a real mess and drop packets everywhere. Since FreeBSD is known to work well in dial-up scenarious it would be great if I could use a FreeBSD box to talk to the ISP and have Novix talk across the LAN to the FreeBSD box. So, Novix is the SPX/IPX gateway to the tcp/ip LAN and FreeBSD is the gateway to the internet. There's a problem. I need to use fake ip addresses on the internal side of the FreeBSD box since there's only a single valid ip address allocated. I've thought about using socks on the FreeBSD box so that the fake internal ip addresses are never seen. Basically, I'm not sure this will work with Novix and I'm touting for experiences of solving this setup in general, i.e. connecting Netware networks to the internet across a dial-up connection where you've only had a single ip address allocated. Using FreeBSD would be nice, but spending bucks on a packaged solution would do me fine at this point but I'd really like to hear from people with known working solutions since I was told Novix was a really good "solution" but that didn't turn out to be the case. -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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