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- From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: SMC and ODI
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.100109.60456@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 10:01:09 MDT
- References: <cggarrat.19.0@csir.co.za>
- Organization: Utah State University
- Lines: 46
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- In article <cggarrat.19.0@csir.co.za>, cggarrat@csir.co.za (Craig Goble-Garratt) writes:
- > We are trying to configure workstations, using SMC cards,
- > to use the ODI setup. We have fairly high expectations from
- > this setup (or do we?) and would like to use it in the
- > following manner:
- >
- > Logical board #1: IPX
- > Logical board #2: IP
- >
- > We would use the board #1 to connect to our NOVELL file
- > severs and we would want to use board #2 to connect to
- > our UNIX boxes. In order to connect to the UNIX boxes
- > we use PATHWAY's telnet and this works fine. However,
- > in general, we use TRUMPET to connect to our news server
- > and this obviously requires ODIPKT in order to run it on
- > top of the ODI driver. This can be made to work as well.
- >
- > WHAT'S THE PROBLEM YOU MAY ASK?
- >
- > Well, we would like to use both PATHWAY and the ODIPKT
- > interface without having to re-configure our workstaions
- > in between their usage. However, once the PATHWAY kernel,
- > pwtcp.exe, has been loaded it seems to lock up logical
- > board #2 and therefore the ODIPKT interface doesn't work.
- > In order to make it work we must first remove the PATHWAY
- > kernel. In a DOS this is not too much of a problem but
- > if one is using Windows 3.x then one must load the kernel
- > before starting up Windows and therefore while within
- > Windows one cannot use the ODIPKT interface.
- >
- > Could anybody shed some light on this problem for me?
- > If so please e-mail me or post to this group.
- >
- > Thanks in advance,
- > Craig.
- >
- > __@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__@__
- > Craig G. Goble-Garratt +27-12-841-4715 (phone)
- > CSIR Information Services +27-12-841-4109 (fax)
- > Pretoria cggarrat@nuustak.csir.co.za
- > ################################################################################
- Craig,
- I think this falls under the heading of Frequently Encountered Gotcha's.
- You are trying to use two (2) IP protocol stacks together, Pathway's and say
- Trumpet's. No go, forget it, does not compute.
- Joe D.
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