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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!shahid@oit.gatech.edu
- From: shahid@oit.gatech.edu (Shahid Sheikh)
- Subject: Novell servers running Internet Router
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.043801.24066@gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@gatech.edu
- Organization: Network Services
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:38:01 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- Hi netters
-
- Can someone explain why a Novell Server has to run an AppleTalk Internet
- Router in it. I know it runs one for IPX as well. But is there a real true
- reason why it has to run the router for appletalk. It seems kind of silly
- just to run an Internet router for one server and not being able to connect
- any devices on the Appletalk subnet. Moreover, if you have about a hundred
- routers already existing and you put like another 50 Novell servers on your
- network, wont that significantly increase your RTMP and ZIT tables and slow
- down the network?
-
- The response I've got from Novell so far is that they have designed the
- multiprotocol support according to the ODI specifications which requires
- them to run that router. Since when appletalk devices have to be designed
- according to ODI standards? Is there a way around this router other than
- not using the stupid Novell server at all? What kind of remote management
- tools come with the Novell router? Does it support SNMP? Can I monitor and
- control the router from a remote non-IPX device?
-
- Any information would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Shahid Sheikh
- Network Services -- Georgia Tech
- shahid@oit.gatech.edu
-