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In article <364E202A.1A74436@bigfoot.com>,
Charles Duffy  <cduffy@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>G'day. I'm running a linux box w/ an ethernet connection (in Kowkow).
>I'm interested in being able to exchange IPX packets with a Win95
>machine connectiong via dialup.
>
>The options I've come up w/ are this:
>
>1. Some sort of IPX over IP tunneling
>
>Unfortunetely, I've found no suitably cross-platform method.
>
>2. PPP (or SLIP, or the like) carrying IPX over telnet over IP
>
>This is easy to do from the linux side of things. I have no idea how to
>make the Windows side of it work, however.
>
>PPTP would work in Win95 were able to serve it (as a linux client's
>available), but it's NT-only.
>

You could look at the possiblity of using kali, www.kali.net, though kali
is designed to tunnel ipx to ip for gaming purposes, i don't know how well
it would work as a ipx tunnel, i suspect not very well.

I assume this is because the routers here don't route ipx. In which
case you could create a tunnel between two linux boxes using 
ssh, pppd, and tunnel ipx that way, but i fear it's going to end
up being a terrible hack.

I seem to want to say that pptp is available with 98, so see if the
upgrade is an option.

Good luck
Sameer


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Sameer Manek                                      manek@ecst.csuchico.edu
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier 
than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

> You could look at the possiblity of using kali, www.kali.net, though kali
> is designed to tunnel ipx to ip for gaming purposes, i don't know how well
> it would work as a ipx tunnel, i suspect not very well.

Is Kali cross-platform? I don't think so...

> I assume this is because the routers here don't route ipx. In which
> case you could create a tunnel between two linux boxes using
> ssh, pppd, and tunnel ipx that way, but i fear it's going to end
> up being a terrible hack.

Right; using telnet and pppd would be similarly effective. Thing is, it's not
between two linux boxen.

> I seem to want to say that pptp is available with 98, so see if the
> upgrade is an option.

Is the PPTP _server_ available w/ 98? I think it's just client. (Sadly, PPTP
isn't peer-to-peer like its PPP cousin).

In article <366311EF.542C5D29@bigfoot.com>,
Charles Duffy  <cduffy@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> You could look at the possiblity of using kali, www.kali.net, though kali
>> is designed to tunnel ipx to ip for gaming purposes, i don't know how well
>> it would work as a ipx tunnel, i suspect not very well.
>
>Is Kali cross-platform? I don't think so...

I doubt it, since it was written for a gaming enviornment, probably dos/windows
only.

>
>> I assume this is because the routers here don't route ipx. In which
>> case you could create a tunnel between two linux boxes using
>> ssh, pppd, and tunnel ipx that way, but i fear it's going to end
>> up being a terrible hack.
>
>Right; using telnet and pppd would be similarly effective. Thing is, it's not
>between two linux boxen.

Then use the 2 linux boxes to route ipx for your windows boxes.

>
>> I seem to want to say that pptp is available with 98, so see if the
>> upgrade is an option.
>
>Is the PPTP _server_ available w/ 98? I think it's just client. (Sadly, PPTP
>isn't peer-to-peer like its PPP cousin).
>

I would highly doubt ms would release a PPTP server for 98, it doesn't make
good economic scence for them. You'll probably need nt server for that.

Good luck
Sameer
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Sameer Manek                                      manek@ecst.csuchico.edu
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier 
than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."

Sameer R. Manek wrote:

> >Is Kali cross-platform? I don't think so...
>
> I doubt it, since it was written for a gaming enviornment, probably dos/windows
> only.

Actually, as it turns out, there IS a port; It just doesn't work w/ anything but
the linux version of Descent. After hacking on Wine a little, though, this should
be fixable.

> >Right; using telnet and pppd would be similarly effective. Thing is, it's not
> >between two linux boxen.
>
> Then use the 2 linux boxes to route ipx for your windows boxes.

Mmm. So I (put together)||(rescue from scrap) a 386, load linux, slap in a modem
and make a serial connection between it and the dialup box?

This should work. Thanks.