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- Subject: TCP/IP routing via the DL-2000 possible?
- Message-ID: <934005174023@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 17:40:23 GMT
- Organization: The University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Hi, and happy birthday to 1/365 of readers...
-
- We have Netware 3.11 running IPX for several DOS workstations on an ethernet
- spine (via NE2000), and a localtalk spine supporting several Macintoshes.
- This is done with Netware for Macintosh v3.011 and a Dayna DL2000 card.
-
- I have added WorkPlace for DOS to our DOS machines, and installed the IP
- NLM in our server, and can now run telnet sessions to other hosts on a
- third network (running on a Dowty PC 0115 card). In other words, our server
- is acting as an IP bridge...
-
- So far so good, so I then purchased WorkPlace for Macintosh, hoping that I
- would be able to do the same from the Macs... sigh... I cannot seem to bind
- IP to the DL2000 board.
-
- It seems very difficult to get Dayna data here in the UK (contact addresses
- welcomed!) so:
-
- 1) Am I using the current DL2000 driver? (V3.14)
-
- 2) When I try to load a second copy of the DL2000 driver NLM for IP use
- (the way I do for the NE2000, say), I get error messages. It won't
- reload with the same port address/interrupt values.
-
- 3) If I ignore this, and try to bind IP anyway (in addition to the Appletalk
- protocol already in use) I get a LOCALTALK NOT RECOGNISED message.
-
- 4) Then I get a FATAL ERROR: NO PROTOCOL ID FOR IP ON THAT MEDIA. on
- reading the Supervisor's Guide to TCP/IP Transport, I found that I
- needed to PROTOCOL REGISTER. Without proper manuals, I just invented
- a couple of ID numbers for IP and ARP (999 and 9999!) and at least
- didnt get the FATAL ERROR. However, I couldnt get the card to
- do the routing business (couldnt even ping its address from my DOS
- machines). And TCPCON seemed to give the NE2000 statistics if I
- enquired about the DL2000 board. And then the board stopped
- working with APPLETALK, and our Macs all crashed. And how we all
- laughed...
-
- 5) Can I do this anyway? If not, why not? What do I offer our
- Mac users?
-
- Oh well, here in eternal hope,
-
- Allan Green
- "I don't really work here... I only came in out of the rain..."
-