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- From: cranch@novell.com (Christopher Ranch)
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP routing via the DL-2000 possible?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.194050.21448@novell.com>
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- Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
- References: <934005174023@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:40:50 GMT
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- In article <934005174023@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk> GREENA@UK.AC.BHAM.IBM3090 writes:
- >==============================================================================
- >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...
-
- IP Router.
-
- >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.
-
- This will not work. In order for IP to run on LocalTalk, you need
- a MacIP gateway. If you have a Fastpath around somewhere on your
- AppleTalk internet, you can set it up to perform the encapsulation
- service needed. Then you'll need to set up TCPort to look for it.
-
- We'd like to write a gateway to run on the server, but given
- priorities, it has not risen to the top of the list. The fact that
- LocalTalk isn't the wave of the future doesn't help ;).
-
- >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
- >3) If I ignore this, and try to bind IP anyway (in addition to the Appletalk
- >4) Then I get a FATAL ERROR: NO PROTOCOL ID FOR IP ON THAT MEDIA. on
- >
- > And how we all laughed...
- >
- >5) Can I do this anyway? If not, why not? What do I offer our
- > Mac users?
-
- As I said, not directly. Just bind AppleTalk to it, and fire up
- a MacIP gateway somewhere on your internet.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
- Chris
- ---
- Chris Ranch
- Internetworking Products Division
- Novell, Inc. San Jose, CA
- (408)473-8667 cranch@novell.com
- I may work for Novell, but I don't speak for them...
-