From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 22 13:19:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA04077 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:19:07 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA04065 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:18:56 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA26228; Wed, 22 Feb 95 14:12:26 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9502222112.AA26228@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Networking questions To: chrisd@ibm.net (Chris Dollmont) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 14:12:25 MST Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502222052.AA06634@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from "Chris Dollmont" at Feb 22, 95 01:51:05 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > An organization that I'm working for wants to set up a connection > to a Unix box through their Novell network. I'm suggesting that > they set up a FreeBSD box and run ODIPKT on the workstations > so that WinSock can talk to the TCP/IP stack over ODI. I've > seen this installation working well with UnixWare and Linux, and > don't anticipate any problems with FreeBSD. > > Except for one thing. > > The network here is entirely token ring. No ethernet. None. > > Any suggestions or comments? Tell us what software you saw running on Linux that allowed connections to it via token ring is the first suggestion that comes to my mind. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.