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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!htsa!tsjoit
- From: tsjoit@htsa.aha.nl (T. H. Tsim)
- Subject: How to interconnect a LAN ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.111417.28584@htsa.aha.nl>
- Organization: Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 11:14:17 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- Dear netters,
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- I am looking for comments for this problem:
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- I want to connect a LAN of PC's with a remote SCO Unix Host:
- The Lan is working with Novell's Netware.
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- W -|
- |
- W -|
- |
- W -|-H--^........^--Unix
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- W -| W=workstation
- | H=Novellserver
- W -| U=SCO Unix
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- I was thinking of using two bridges (but I don't have experience with bridges)
- in order to 'bridge' the distance through x.25 or leased line. Could someone
- give me some usefull hints ?
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- The second part I'm not familiar to is how to connect the workstations with
- the Unix-Host, after a lot of thinking, browsing and studying, I think TCP/IP
- could be a good solution.
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- But again, I lack of practical knowledge, in order to enable coexistance of
- IPX and TCP/IP. I've heard of ODI-drivers, packet-drivers,machine requirements,
- SLIP and PPP. After a lot of studying documents and books, I still can't see
- the whole picture of the puzzle (maybe some pieces are missing ?)
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- So please, give me some comments, critics, information to indicate I'm one the
- right track (or not).
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- I'm a student on co-op assignment :-)
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- Greetings from Holland
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