Jose:
Are your Novell servers running IP? Until just recently, Novell ran
only IPX for file services, and IP for auxiliary services, like DHCP
and so forth. It's possible to alter Netware servers' behavior with
regard to RIP and other broadcasts, but it's not a normal thing, or
easy to do. The purpose of RIP and SAP are to advertise the
presence of individual Netware servers to one another, and to
advise each other of various IPX networks and the routes to them
through those servers.
You might trying to disable IPX at your Linux system with
alias net-pf-4 off
in your /etc/conf.modules file.
If this doesn't help, I think I can get you some more IPX routing
help.
Charlie Shoemaker
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Date sent: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
To: "David A. Ranch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copies to: "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Audie Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Masq] Strange losses of connection...
>
> Thanks for your reply david.
>
> > >I'm not sure if this is happening... if I look at my routing table
> > >everything is fine. I think the linux box is receiving RIP packets,
> > >but is rejecting them properly.
> >
> > Why are you running RIP? Do you really need this? Novell RIP isn't
> > required to propagate Novell SAP lists.
>
> I'm sorry but I'm not so familier with Novell... could anyone define
> Novell SAP lists? Also, the powers above me would be much happier if I
> didn't have to touch the Novell servers. The way things stand now... We
> have a bunch fo Novell servers, an NT domain server, a linux box acting as
> a internet gateway & firewall, and bunches of win95 client machines.
> Right now the problem is that the win95 machines lose connectivity to the
> internet gateway at what appears to be random times. I believe I have
> deterinmined it to be at fault of the novell servers sending out RIP
> packets. Everything works fine if I seperate the linux box and a client
> from the network. Therefore I ask, is there a way to force the Win95
> boxes to ignore the RIP packets? or... is it definately true that we
> don't need the Noell servers sending out RIP? why would novell servers
> need to send out RIP packets? Thanks.
>
> -Josh
>
>
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