IPX routing in Windows 2000 Professional

[msg]

Greetings:

How may I enable or install IPX routing in Win2k Pro? I have a Win98
guest running in a 'virtualbox' vm which has IP and IPX (and a Novell
32-bit client) configured. The host sees two NICs: its ethernet
hardware NIC and the virtualbox 'Host Network Interface (TAP)' virtual
NIC; I have IP routing working (a registry change enabled it) between
these interfaces and consequently Microsoft SMB networking is
working on the Win98 guest. The Win2k Pro host has NWLink configured
and also has a Novell client installed and is logged in to a NW3.12
(bindery) server. I need to route RIP and SAP for IPX between
the two interfaces (host physical and guest virtual) -- as is
already working for IP to permit the Win98 guest to login and
use Netware services.

I have Win2k Server and NT3.51 and NT4.0 Server in case some code
is needed to be installed on the Win2k Pro host for this purpose
(from RRAS?).

All replies appreciated.

Michael

 

[Kurt]

Greetings:

How may I enable or install IPX routing in Win2k Pro? I have a Win98
guest running in a 'virtualbox' vm which has IP and IPX (and a Novell
32-bit client) configured. The host sees two NICs: its ethernet
hardware NIC and the virtualbox 'Host Network Interface (TAP)' virtual
NIC; I have IP routing working (a registry change enabled it) between
these interfaces and consequently Microsoft SMB networking is
working on the Win98 guest. The Win2k Pro host has NWLink configured
and also has a Novell client installed and is logged in to a NW3.12
(bindery) server. I need to route RIP and SAP for IPX between
the two interfaces (host physical and guest virtual) -- as is
already working for IP to permit the Win98 guest to login and
use Netware services.

I have Win2k Server and NT3.51 and NT4.0 Server in case some code
is needed to be installed on the Win2k Pro host for this purpose
(from RRAS?).

All replies appreciated.

Michael

2000 Server supports IPX routing, but not 2000 Pro.

Kurt

 

[msg]

2000 Server supports IPX routing, but not 2000 Pro.

Indeed; however someone must have tackled this issue for multiprotocol
routing in virtualization environments on Win2k Pro. VMware provides
a bridging interface which avoids the issue (and works well), but
Virtualbox does not, so a routing solution is needed. Suggesting the
use of a server O/S is a bit overkill.

I may try at some point to install NT4's multiprotocol router on
Win2k Pro for an experiment; has anyone ever tried this?

Regards,

Michael