Re: [Poptop-server] IPX via pptp and lan games

There was some IPX support in 1.1.2, but it didn't really work as it
should, so we took it out. One would figure that setting the IPX stuff
in the options file would make it all work. Guess it doesn't. I'm no IPX
guy, so I can't help you on this one. I do wonder though what games
you're playing, because most games have tcp support now. Would be
WarCraft 1 or Doom?
Anyway. I can imagine something like:

internal adapter has a nodeid in network 1.
ppp-adapter for the client connection has a nodeid in network 2.
a ripd transmits/translates all traffic to and from the client.

But again, I'm no IPX guy......

If someone could write a decent IPX supplement for pptpd, I would be
more than willing to implement it. On the other hand, even Novell is
going over to TCP/IP, isn't it?


Regards,
Richard


>  I run a Slackware 7.0 but updated to 2.2.24. I wanted to try a VPN
> connection with a friend who only has a modem, so I did the following:
> 
> installed pptpd-1.3 (it was easy)
> pppd-2.4.2 (unofficial patched release available from poptop fpr ms mppe
> and chap-v2 to work) After some crypt library problems, got it
> installed.
> 
> A TCP/IP connection via pptp works fine. Proxy arp is done by pppd and
> my friend can see any computer inside my network as expected. 
> 
> I got ipx support and spx support in the kernel, the got the ipx tools
> (for configuration purposes) and ipxd.
> After a lot of headache and fixing some missing includes (parse error
> before "af_ipx" if anyone seen this, add #include <types.h> and move
> some other includes before #include <ipx.h> or smth similar).
> Then ipxd refused to compile because of some type cast problems when
> giving the name of the log file.
> After I managed to compile all these, I got them intalled. 
> 
> I configured my inside interface to support ipx too and started ipxd.
> 
> Topology:
> 
> internal net
> ----------------------------
>        LAN, ip, ipx                               ip
> MyPC ----------------------- Linux router --------------internet
> win98                       eth0       eth1                
> |----------------Friend's PC
>                                       ppp0 (via pptp)               
> Win95 or WinXP, modem, lan card, VPN adapter
> 
> ipxnet                       ipxnet    ipxnet                      
> ipxnet
> 10000000                     10000000  40000000                    
> 40000000
> 
> I configured pppd with ipx support as follows:
> ipx
> ipx-routing 2    (RIP)
> ipx-router-name gate
> ipx-network 40000000
> ipx-node 40:0
> ipx-accept-remote
> 
> On the network we all use Ethernet II frame type and I configured the
> Friend's PC in the same way.
> After connection is established, on both the linux and windows side,
> tcp/ip and ipx are negotiated ok.
> ipxd will see the interface change and add a route to it. 
> 
> However, any game we try to play over the created vpn does not work.
> 
> I see a lot of messages logged by ipxd as follows:
> RIP from non-local net on ifc 10000000
> 40000000 (ignored)
> 
> 
> Then, I tried to enable full internal IPX network support and added an
> address to it. 
> No more logged messages in ipxd's log but stillnothing works.
> 
> If anyone could please give me a suggestion...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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