Re: Dumb networking question about IP forwarding

[Paul Miller <pmiller@jove.acs.unt.edu>]

"Dale E. Martin" wrote:
> 
> Paul Miller <pmiller@jove.acs.unt.edu> writes:
> 
> > What you are trying to do is make a bridge. This is experimental in the
> > new 2.2.x kernels.
> 
> Will that work with IPX?  There are Novell boxes on this network as well...
> 
It should. Bridges are suppost to work at the hardware layer. They do
not care about what higher level protocols they are passing ie. TCP/IP
or IPX.

> > You can achieve the same affect with a 100Mbs Hub which you can connect
> > all your 10Mbs and 100Mbs devices to.
> 
> If I had a hub or a switch that could run dual speeds, I wouldn't have
> asked the question :-)
> 
Just checking ;-)

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Paul Miller
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