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- From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: Netware and TCP/IP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.201150.8151@novell.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 20:11:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.154011.20130@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.132149.5508@linus.mitre.org> Brian Fellows <bdf@mitre.org> writes:
- >>I am about to add TCP/IP capability to an existing LAN running Netware IPX.
- >
- >I'll beat Russ to the punch and post his suggestion to me. The key component
- >here is a interface program (called a shim) between the Novell stuff and
- >the packet driver. Also by using a program called pktmux it is possible to
- >have several TCP/IP stacks going on at once.
-
- Send him off into the weeds, why don't you?
-
- Mr. Fellows, your best approach to add TCP/IP to an existing NetWare
- network is probably to switch from IPX.com to IPXODI.com (i.e., switch
- from the old compiled in drivers to ODI drivers) -- you may have already
- done that -- and then buy any of the several TCP/IP packages that
- support ODI. Then IPX and TCP/IP can share the NIC without any trouble.
-
- The advice given by Mr. Jeff assumes that you are not planning to
- actually purchase a TCP/IP product, but instead are planning to track
- down a free TCP/IP implementation and work out how to use it on your
- own. The free implementations all use the packet drivers that Mr. Jeff
- describes. If that's what you have in mind, please feel free to take
- his advice, but i'm guessing that's not the situation since one option
- you're considering is buying additional NICs to support TCP/IP.
-
- Coexistence of TCP/IP and IPX has been worked out in several
- different ways. Nowadays, most PC based TCP/IP implementations,
- including the free ones as Mr. Jeff has explained, have some
- mechanism for sharing a NIC with IPX. The mechanism Novell
- officially recommends is ODI, but that's not too surprising
- since Novell's own TCP/IP product for PCs uses ODI.
-
- In any case, you should not need to buy a second NIC to add TCP/IP.
-
- don provan
- donp@novell.com
-