Subject: Re: Anyone in UK got VAX boot CD for NetBSD V2.1?
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
From: Johnny Billquist <johnny.billquist@softjar.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/23/2005 11:04:13
Of course you can. Anything that bridges two ethernets will work fine.
But MOP itself can only work on a local network. A bridge is just a way
to extend a local network.
Johnny
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 19:42:18 -0000, a.carlini@ntlworld.com <arcarlini@iee.org> wrote:
>
>>Mark Wickens wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm presuming the MOP server could be on the internet?
>>
>>You can certainly put a MOP server on the internet. However,
>>noone will be able to talk to it. You'll need a local one
>>(or maybe an Infoserver).
>
>
> I've heared rumors that you can play tricks (like using tun/tap
> devices in conjunction with OpenVPN to tunnel the MOP traffic to a
> remote site) but after all, MOP is a local protocol...
>
> MfG, JBG
>
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