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- From: bgolden@ops.agsci.colostate.edu (Bruce Golden)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.att,comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Re: Moving away from StarLan
- Message-ID: <Jul28.142054.60867@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:20:54 GMT
- References: <92209.191917U53805@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Reply-To: bgolden@ops.agsci.colostate.edu (Bruce Golden)
- Organization: Colorado State University
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- In article <92209.191917U53805@uicvm.uic.edu>, U53805@uicvm.uic.edu writes,
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- > We're considering moving away from Starlan to OS/2 or Novell. Some people
- > say we cannot use our AT&T 10 mbps cards, or our AT&T hubs. I would like to
- > know other people's experience with a similar move, and whether or not this
- > statement by a VAR is really true.
- >
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- Typical VAR... They work fine. We run packet driver stuff like NCSA, CUTCP
- and even Vines. You can even do this all at the same time out the card using
- NDIS and the dis_pkt9.dos shim. The hubs route it all great. We run a mixed
- set of AT&T and David Systems hubs.
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- > Thanks for your input. If you want, I will post a summary of findings in a
- > few days.
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- -bruce
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