On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:45:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:55:46PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> | Hello list,
> |
> | Is it possible to build a pptpd on Linux and make some Windows client to
> | use pptp to connect to the pptpd server and connect to each other via
> | IPX protocol?
> |
> | Some LAN games use IPX protocol, how can I make it possible to achieve
> | IPX over TCP/IP?
>
> If you have a LAN, then just run IPX over Ethernet (or token ring, or
> whatever layer 2 LAN you have).
>
> You can run IP and IPX over the same ethernet cabling.
In other words, IP and IPX are both layer-3 protocols. They really
don't interact with each other.
It is possible to encapsulate IPX in IP if you need to transport IPX
traffic between LANs.
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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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