Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 09:40:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, paul@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netware gateway. Message-ID: <199508160010.JAA27070@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9508151809.AA07134@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 15, 95 12:09:25 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > Unless you go TCP on the WFWG boxes, which is ruled out by the address > > > assignment restrictions, I think the WFWG<-->TCP gateway transactions > > > will be IPX by definition. > > > > Um. What address restrictions? If the IP all happens on a private network > > and everything is proxied, what assignment restrictions are there? > > Well, I think running the extra stack will take more memory. Yeees... a few hundred K at most. It's a VxD, so despite all it's other faults, when you're not using it it will be swapped out. > I think if there is more than one hop for the NetWare server, it means > buying TCP/IP for all intermediate NetWare servers to get your packets > routed to the gateway. In this scenario, the one for which I was proposing this solution, there is only one ethernet, and only one server. You can also put a _really_ cheesy BSD system beside the Novell server as a TCP bridge; depending on the street price of the Novell TCP stack this may well be cheaper. (I've done this before - a 386sx16 with 4M and a 40M disk and a couple of ethernet cards is a _really_ cheap ethernet bridge.) > Admittedly, if you do an internal net right, you get around the address > space restrictions, but there are still others there. NetWare likes > a heirarchical arrangement of servers, for one thing. What's Netware got to do with anything here? We have a bunch of WfW machines, some string and a Netware box. We want to connect the WfW machines to the 'net, so that people can do netty things. KISS > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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