[PLUG] firewall

Stafford A. Rau srau at rauhaus.org
Fri Mar 3 20:21:51 UTC 2006


* AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> [060302 23:35]:
> Ed Sawicki wrote:
> > IPX _is_ globally routable. You just need an IPX-based global network.
> > The reason why IPX is not suitable for a network the size of the
> > Internet is because packets can't cross more than 15 routers or hops.
> > The IPX equivalent of the IP TTL is a 4-bit counter - unless Novell
> > changed that in a recent decade. :-)
> 
> It is routable, but there's no standardization to say your network won't
> use the same addresses my network uses...

I'm really rusty on IPX - I know the network id is 6 bytes, with the end
station's MAC being the hostid. Is there any method for subnetting or
supernetting/aggregation, or is that six byte network the only unit you
can work with?

--Stafford



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