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- From: ppan@nobeltech.se (Per Andersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
- Subject: Re: Novell packet encapsulation on Ethernet - which to choose?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.004507.4899@nobeltech.se>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 00:45:07 GMT
- References: <ERIKS.93Jan15083219@outland.ccs.yorku.ca>
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- In article <ERIKS.93Jan15083219@outland.ccs.yorku.ca> eriks@outland.ccs.yorku.ca (Eriks Rugelis) writes:
- >Other than default configurations being nicer to administer... are there
- >compelling technical reasons to choose between the two IPX encapulation
- >schemes for Ethernet?
-
- Three !
-
- >However, having just tried DEC's Pathworks Netware Compatibility S/W,
- >it seems that it can ONLY use the Novell-Ether encapsulation. Since
- >Pathworks is intended to run in association with VAX/VMS, this would seem
- >to contradict cisco's warning (at least for recent versions of VMS).
-
- Makes sense. The VAXen ethernet cards won't use the bastardized 802.3 frames
- that netware has used from the beginning, it wants Ethernet frames.
- Netware can now also be used with real 802.2 SNAP-frames, which it should
- have done for several years now. But then some are less irritated by strange
- hacks than I am....
-
- /Per
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