ipx routing

[Sean]

Can you connect from the linux box to the novell server?
I am wondering if you don't have a port enabled that you need. 


On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Mike Rambo wrote:

> Have any of you ever tried (and hopefully succeeded) in configuring
> Linux to route ipx traffic.  What we have is a token ring building with
> a novell server that has added an ethernet lab.  The token ring is the
> old style IBM type cabling with the big odd-ball connectors.  The
> ethernet is RJ45 as you might expect.  The token ring network does have
> internet access.
> 
> In the lab at the far end of the building we have a single IBM token
> cable (thus I cannot simply add another MAU).  I need to be able to
> route both tcpip and ipx traffic from the ethernet lab to the token ring
> network so that they can access the novell server via ipx and the
> internet via tcpip.  I hope this is clear.  Allergies have clouded my
> thinking.
> 
> The token ring to ethernet router is not a problem.  I have configured
> several of those.  It appears I have IPX up on the router ok too though
> ICBW.  My problem is that I cannot access the novell server.  I can see
> it in network neighborhood but I cannot access it.
> 
> I have tried the ipxripd (ipxd) package which served somehow to lock up
> my windows clients.  Mars-nwe is what I currently have configured.  With
> it the windows clients can access the linux mars server with no
> problem.  I can see the novell server but cannot access it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike Rambo
> Media & Electronics Specialist
> Lansing School District
> mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us
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