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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au!macadam!andrewm From: andrewm@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Andrew Myles) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Mobile IP Date: 18 Jun 1993 01:59:47 GMT Organization: Macquarie University Lines: 35 Sender: andrewm@macadam (Andrew Myles) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1vr7ij$7jl@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au G'day all, I have been involved in the evaluation of various proposals for mobile IP. I even did an implementation of one proposal using a hacked version of NCSA telnet and a commercial router that I happened to have access to. I now want to do a more serious implementation of another proposal and was thinking of doing it using UNIX on a PC. 386bsd and netbsd were suggested. So now I have some questions before I get to far down the track: 1) What is the diference between the two 2) Is there a set of instructions somewhere that I can read up on the development environment? 3) I need routing functionality - I am right in assuming that 386bsd and netbsd both can be configured as routers. 4) I also need the ability to advertise routes (ie RIP) but I need to be able to advertise a network that might not be physically attached. Any problems? Is there anything else I should know about the development process on a netbsd/386bsd? As far as I can tell from reading the installation notes all I need is a PC with a big disk and memory and the binaries/sources from the internet. Am I missing something? Is this going to be a smooth process? Andrew