>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> We thought about IP to IP through a "hole" in the firewall, but we are
> running cc:Mail on a Novell server running only IPX. The gateway runs
> on NT using commercial software. Since we need to make the jump to IPX
> somewhere along the way, it seems like the mail gateway PC is a good
> place to do that. Rather than punch an IPX hole in the firewall (which
> might be more obvious to exploit) we figured we could just sneak
> around it.
>
> I'm just curious to know if anyone actually COULD make the protocol
> and network jump on a dual homed NT 4.0 server. I'm guessing it would
> be pretty tough.
The NT 4.0 server would have to have software to make the translation from
IPX to IP. I do not know if there is such a beast for NT.
>
> I think we will move the cc:Mail post office to an NT server running
> IP and resolve the problem.
>
>
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