On 15-May-99 Stomper wrote:
> Is it possible to pass IPX packets thru a linux masq.
IPX supports routing because it has a network number as well as a node
number. But this is probably not what you want to do anyhow because a lot of
software that uses IPX doesn't support more than one network number.
Therefore you will probably want to have each participating machine respond
to the same network number.. which means they'd have to be on the same wire
or they would need to be bridged or tunneled. But to answer your question..
linux masquerading is only applied to IP packets, so it doesn't affect IPX
traffic unless you are using a tunnel or something.
> I am on a DSL, technically a leg on my ISP's lan. Have a friend that has
> the same thing, we would like to plan LAN games with each other etc. We
> have been able to mount samba devices on his win machine from my linux masq
> machine so that part is being passed. But how do we pass IPX packets....
That is a good candidate for ipxtunnel. It will send/receive IPX packets to
another machine running ipxtunnel via UDP or TCP. It's been a few years
since I played around with it. The only problem with it was it wasn't
intelligent enough to know which IPX traffic to pass, so it could be sending
other IPX traffic over your link than you need.
http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO-15.html
Or you both could just get some of the Kali stuff, it kind of does the same
thing. Do a search on http://www.freshmeat.net
I can't remember if either of these actually require you to set your ethernet
interfaces up for IPX. But if so, that is a simple matter:
ipx_interface add eth0 etherii dabad000
Or maybe it is just better to just run ipxd to pick up the network number and
packet types automatically by sniffing traffic. Who knows what the different
IPX stacks set up as a default. I think Windows 95 picks 00000000 by
default, which is actually illegal.
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