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- From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
- Subject: Re: Remote modem access to Novell
- Message-ID: <brian.93.0@SJF.Novell.COM>
- Summary: Modem pool for connectivity
- Keywords: NACS, NAS, modem connectivity
- Lines: 62
- Sender: news@novell.com (The Netnews Manager)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.57.220.52
- Organization: Novell, Inc.
- References: <dbehr.67.725791517@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za> <31DEC199208270018@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:38:20 GMT
-
- dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) writes:
- >From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy)
- >Subject: Re: Remote modem access to Novell
- >Summary: Modem pool for connectivity
- >Keywords: NACS, NAS, modem connectivity
- >Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. USA
- >Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:27:00 GMT
- >Lines: 15
- >In article <dbehr.67.725791517@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za>, dbehr@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za (Danie Behr) writes...
- >%Currently we are investigating the provision of async access for students
- >%at our university to a number of Novell File Servers. We have looked at the
- >%Novell NACS package.
- >
- >May I suggest you look at the Telebit NetBlazer? It support remote Novell
- >access, remote AppleTalk access and remote IP access through the same box.
- >They can be reached at 1-800-TELEBIT
-
- I'm using a dialup PPP connection to several NetWare servers and the
- Internet via a NetBlazer in our LAB as I type... I have no complaints
- about it's performance whatsoever.
-
- I also believe my application of the NetBlazer may be what Danie is
- looking for.
-
- At my home, LAN WorkPlace for DOS v4.1 provides PPP and TCP/IP support
- along with IPTUNNEL (a client ODI driver implementation of RFC-1234),
- which supports IPXODI and the NetWare shell. This allows IPX
- connections over UDP/IP to a NetWare v3.11 server in San Jose, which
- then routes the IPX packets to the Novell IPX internet using whatever
- frame format is needed.
-
- The modem connection is made between a Telebit T3000 (on the
- NetBlazer) and my Intel SatisFAXtion Modem/400e at home using a
- V.32bis/V.42bis (14,400bps with error handling and compression)
- connection. DOS file copies using the latest burst-more shell are
- coming in at about 1.3KB/second from a remote server to a local disk.
-
- This provides acceptable performance for NetWare server administration
- (SYSCON, RCONSOLE, etc... best loaded from local disks, of course) and
- light server data file access, as well as any number of simultaneous
- TCP/IP-based applications sharing a single modem line.
-
- It's also nice for applications that make both TCP/IP and NetWare
- calls, such as Trumpet. Trumpet for example, likes to store a user's
- news.ini file in their email directory on their default NetWare
- server. By logging into the same default NetWare server from home or
- office, Trumpet can track news group status consistently regardless of
- the location of the workstation I'm using.
-
- However, if your application requires access to large server-based
- data files... you would be better off running the application
- remotely on a machine that is physically located on the LAN where the
- data is located (Be it running DOS, NAS, DV/X or UnixWare). Of
- course, the PPP link could then provide the connection to that DOS
- machine process. Form home, I often Telnet to my DOS machine at work
- (since no one else uses it while I'm at home or away), and run certain
- DOS applications.
-
- -- brian
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Brian Meek Novell, Inc. -- Desktop Systems Group
- Internet mail: brian@Novell.COM
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