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- In <37hff5$9e@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
- >I went to a Warp extravaganza yesterday. One of the handouts was entitled
- >"OS/2 Warp: Now it's easier to do more" (G236-0475-00). In the back, there's
- >a table "IBM OS/2 Warp operating system selection guide." It seems to imply
- >that one needs to get OS/2 Warp LAN Client (with or without WIN-OS2) to get
- >TCP/IP. It left me with more questions than answers, concerning TCP/IP:
-
-
- >Can one get TCP/IP without getting OS/2 LAN Client?
-
- TCP/IP version 2.0 for OS/2 can be installed on OS/2 Warp. There are
- no known incompatibilities with OS/2 v. 3, and although this combination
- has not been fully tested, no problems have been observed.
-
-
- >Does OS/2 LAN Client provide...
-
- The formal announcement of OS/2 LAN Client hasn't occurred yet -- you'll
- have to wait on this information.
-
- As for compatibility and support for OS/2 2.1 users:
-
- Web Explorer will be available via anonymous FTP on October 21.
- It can be run on TCP/IP 2.0 and OS/2 2.1.
-
- PPP support will also be available, roughly in the same time period.
-
- Gopher is already available via anonymous FTP. The version on
- software.watson.ibm.com in /pub/os2/ews is the same as shipped in WARP.
-
- It is possible to install the Warp Internet Connection kit on top of
- TCP/IP 2.0, although this is not formally supported. You must be running
- OS/2 3.0, you must have the latest CSD for TCP/IP 2.0, and you
- must install the Internet Connection kit after TCP/IP 2.0. The
- compatibility issues are:
-
- (1) The Ultimail package in the Internet Connection kit is currently
- configured only for Internet mail, and not for use on a LAN.
-
- (2) While you are connected to the internet, your default route, domain, and
- name server are all on the Internet. If you are accessing LAN resident
- TCP/IP resources simultaneously, this can create problems. You can
- get around these problems in one of two ways:
-
- (a) You can end your internet connection when you want to access TCP/IP
- hosts on your local network, or
-
- (b) You can add subnet and host routes for TCP/IP hosts you access through
- your LAN gateway, and you can add entries in a hosts file for TCP/IP
- hosts on your LAN, so that their names can be resolved. Once this is
- done, you can simultaneously access LAN TCP/IP hosts and Internet TCP/IP
- hosts. (You probably want to set ipgate off to disable routing through
- your own machine.)
-
- Knowledgeable users will figure this stuff out, but OS/2 version 3 will
- be used by many less experienced folks. For this reason, and because
- this combination has not been formally tested, the
- official position is that TCP/IP 2.0 and the Warp Internet Connection
- are incompatible -- which is not true. The problems listed above
- will be addressed for OS/2 LAN Client.
-
- BTW, the Warp Internet Connection kit should not be installed on OS/2 2.1.
- Ultimail and IBM Dialer have some dependencies on OS/2 3.0.
-
-
-
- // John McGarvey
-
-