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IPX anyone?

Is there any way to at least forward IPX on my FW?

BTW, this is not a firewall in the sense that it's protecting my network from the bad guys outside. It's an internal FW that's being used as a router and VPN tunnel terminator, so it's hardly playing a firewall role.

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0 Simon Shaw over 20 years ago

IPX is unroutable I'm pretty sure...
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0 VelvetFog over 20 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

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IPX is unroutable I'm pretty sure...

[/ QUOTE ]IPX is a very routable protocol. It can be routed worldwide just fine.
However, ASL, and all of the little 4-port SOHO routers on the market these days, are designed to be IP only devices.
The IPX protocol is obsolete, even its inventor, Novell, is abandoning it.
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0 Simon Shaw over 20 years ago in reply to VelvetFog

Sorry, was thinking of NETBUEI [:)]
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0 WmLongman over 20 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

Thanks, guys. I know the basic kernel can do IPX if I set it up, but I wasn't sure what ASL would do with it, if anything. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing any GNU/Linux IPX fw tools, but it's not like I've been looking for them.

Your info is greatly appreciated!
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0 WmLongman over 20 years ago in reply to Simon Shaw

Thanks, guys. I know the basic kernel can do IPX if I set it up, but I wasn't sure what ASL would do with it, if anything. In fact, I don't recall ever seeing any GNU/Linux IPX fw tools, but it's not like I've been looking for them.

Your info is greatly appreciated!
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0 BarryG over 20 years ago in reply to WmLongman

There are bridging tools for Linux.
I don't know how they would get along with IPTables, etc.

Barry
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