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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- From: mike@childsoc.demon.co.uk (Michael Bernardi)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!childsoc.demon.co.uk!mike
- Subject: IPXPKT and Token Ring
- Distribution: world
- References: <1992Aug13.143740.23071@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
- Organization: The Children's Society
- Lines: 41
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:10:34 +0000
- Message-ID: <713797888snx@childsoc.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- In article <1992Aug13.143740.23071@rhrk.uni-kl.de> weber@rhrk.uni-kl.de writes:
-
- >>Last week I got a new Madge Smart 16/4 PC Ringnode card which allowed me to
- >>install IBMTOKEN and IPXPKT on the same card and network. With KA9Q's NET.EXE
- >>I could connect to a *ix system via the IBMTOKEN driver and I could telnet to
- >>a PC also running KA9Q via IPXPKT. BUT I could NOT get a connection through
- >>the router itself. ie using NET on the router I could see both networks BUT I
- >>couldn't get through the router. Any ideas how I could solve this would be
- >>gratefully recieved.
- >
- >Looks like a routing problem. Are you sure, that netmask and interface
- >adresses are such that routing is done properly ?
-
- I'm not a 100% sure but I followed the example in the Crynwr IPXPKT.DOC. Have
- you any suggesion as to the best setup?
-
- >If that's not the problem, what is your exact setup ? Is your IPX generated
- >for the IBM Lan Support Program ?
-
- NO, Madge have a single device driver called SMARTIPX.EXE which totally
- emulates the LLC Token Ring layer AND also provies a IPX connection! I was
- very impressed. If we hadn't already bought 80 WD Token Card I'd reccomend
- these Madge ones.
- >
- >>Of course if I had a Western Digital Token Card driver that would work either
- >>with FTP's TCP/IP or with NCSA Telnet/MS-Kermit (Packet Driver) then I
- >>wouldn't need to use this faking of IP over IPX.
- >
- >What about an ODI-driver and PC/TCP's tokdrv kernel with their odipkt
- >shim ? And - have those WD cards a Lan Support Program compatible driver ?
-
- WD haven't written either an ODI driver or a Packet Driver for their Token
- Cards. AND their IBM LAN Support Program compatible driver is not very
- reliable. ie a PC running this and an IPX generated to support IBM LAN
- Support Program will hang much more often than the same machine running only
- the WD Token Card IPX.
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