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- From: harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu
- Subject: Re: BYU packet driver IPX doesn't do SPX
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.130538.1@indyvax.iupui.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul22.132642.27926@eds1.eds.com> <brian.19.0@Novell.COM> <1992Jul27.205641.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> <1992Jul28.064029.28301@novell.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 13:05:38 -0500
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- In article <1992Jul28.064029.28301@novell.com>, donp@novell.com (don provan) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul27.205641.1@indyvax.iupui.edu> harvey@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:
- >>I just hate to interrupt this thread, but I had some thoughts on the original
- >>question which started it all, which was (see subject line :-)...
- >
- > You have some interesting theories, but they are, unfortunately, wrong.
-
- (faint choking sounds heard while Jim extricates foot from mouth)
- Thanks. I needed that.
-
- >>Now, SPX just uses IPX (right?), so it would seem odd that a working IPX
- >>driver would not work with a particular application that uses SPX...
- >
- > "IPX driver" is not a correct description, and it's misleading you.
- > It would make more sense to say "NetWare protocol stack". That might
- > make it clearer why an SPX application would have trouble: the SPX
- > protocol stack is, from what others are saying, simply missing from
- > the picture. SPX is not implemented in SPX applications, it's
- > implemented in the executable supporting the NetWare protocol stack.
- > Apparently in the case of the BYU stuff, no one implemented it.
-
- But I thought the original poster claimed that SPX wasn't implemented because
- some database application didn't work, and then others replied claiming that
- SPX _was_ implemented because other SPX applications worked (RCONSOLE?).
- --
- James Harvey IUPUI OIT Technical Support/Networks
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