Re: 2.1.103 and IPX

[Mike Eckhoff <bert@willy.wsc.edu>]

I used Token-Ring under novell (802.5?) and Token-Ring_SNAP only for
TCP/IP - you couldn't run IPX over that.  It used to show up as 802.2TR
not EthernetII.  *shrugs*  could be just hte utils as well...

-me

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Paul Norton wrote:

> Was your network set up to use 802.2 or SNAP?  I wasn't able to get
> 802.2 IPX to work under 2.1.96, and because of some other information
> I had I simply assumed that 802.2 IPX never worked over
> token-ring.  SNAP shows up as EtherII.  Is that what is broken? 
> 
> Mike Eckhoff writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > > [root@kwatz /root]# cat /proc/net/ipx_interface 
>  > > Network    Node_Address   Primary  Device     Frame_Type 
>  > > BABEBABE   10005A7DE49E   Yes      tr0        EtherII 
>  > 
>  > EtherII?  This was always 802.2TR when I used it.  Was this a 2.1 change?
>  > I apologise for getting behind on some of this stuff.  I havn't had my
>  > own TR lan for almost a year now. :(
> 

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