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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Path: sparky!uunet!uchdcc!ppoblete
- From: ppoblete@dcc.uchile.cl (Patricio Poblete)
- Subject: TCP/IP on top of Novell?
- Originator: ppoblete@pincoya
- Sender: usenet@dcc.uchile.cl (Network News)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.130825.18875@dcc.uchile.cl>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:08:25 GMT
- Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion
- Keywords: UDEE741@OAK.CC.KCL.AC.UK
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- The following question appeared in a local mailing list.
- If you can help, please reply directly to Sergio Velastin
- (UDEE741@OAK.CC.KCL.AC.UK), not to myself. Thanks in advance,
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- __ ppoblete@dcc.uchile.CL
- _ _ _ / / _ / _ Patricio Poblete
- /_) /_) (_) /_) / (-' / (-' Dept. of Computer Science
- / / University of Chile
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- Scenario:
- PC network running Novell Netware version 3.10
- NE1000 and NE2000 Ethernet cards connected to Cheapernet
- All machines are running DOS
- Normally we run IPX and NETx (mostly NET5) on each workstation
-
- We have a room of disk-less workstation. Here each Network card has
- a ROM for remote booting from the file system.
-
- The file server (following Novell practices) contains a 'crunched' version
- of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT (I think!) that, when a machine's ROM
- contacts the file server, loads IPX and NET (CONFIG.SYS) plus other
- things such as sign-on message and login prompts (AUTOEXEC.BAT) to boot
- the workstation.
-
- TCP/IP
- We have now connected our network to the university backbone ethernet
- through a Bridge. We have also connected a few Sun workstations to our
- network.
- What we are after is to run TCP/IP **on top of** Novell.
-
- We have succeeded in doing this with hard-disk machines:
- We have obtained Clarkson packet drivers from the public domain (let's
- call this NE1000.COM) and we have created a modified version of IPX
- (PDIPX.COM, PD= Packet driver). From a hard disk machine, we run the
- sequence:
- NE1000 0x61 0x5 0x320
- PDIPX
- NET5
- and presto! we connect to the network. Then we can run public domain
- versions of TELNET, FTP, etc. to TCP/IP over the network.
- (above: 0x61 is software interrupt number, 0x5 is hardware interrupt
- for the ethernet card and 0x320 is its i/o address).
-
- TCP/IP from disk-less machines
- The theory is simple: modify the workstation start-up procedure
- in the file server (using the new packet drivers) and 'crunch' it.
-
- Result: Failure. The workstation hangs up
- We have tried a -d switch in the NE1000 packet driver that we were
- told allow it to be used in the way we want (crunched). Same result.
-
- Any ideas??????
-
- Any help will be rewarded with giga thanks of appreciation!!!
-
- Sergio Velastin
- Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
- King's College London
- University of London
- England
-