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- From: daborton@va (David A. Borton)
- Subject: Re: Sybase NLM: TCP/IP or IPX/SPX?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:38:06 GMT
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- paul@eunet.co.at (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
- :
- : We've decided to go for LWP for DOS, to connect our PC's running Windows
- : on a Novell network with TR adaptors, to a UNIX box with an Ethernet
- : adaptor. Am I right in assuming that Novell's MPR 2.0 will support
- : routing for this scenario?
-
- Yes, paul, the MPR can route IPX or IP traffic from a TR network to an
- Ethernet network.
-
- :
- : Another key question, which may be related to TCP/IP support for Sybase
- : clients -- I consider TCP/IP to be inherently insecure, unless run with
- : e.g. Kerberos. Question: will Kerberos work with LWP, and is anyone
- : using this in a client/server environment with Sybase?
- : --
- : Paul Gillingwater
- : Home system: paul@actrix.co.at (Waffle)
-
- I do not know of Kerberos can be used here, but I do know that Sybase clients
- can access the database server using just IP, no problem.
- -------
- Here am I sitting in a tin can...
-