Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ucbvax!MIAMIU.BITNET!CHRIS From: CHRIS@MIAMIU.BITNET (Chris Allison) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: ARCNET <--> Ethernet Message-ID: <9003160914.aa08039@louie.udel.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 13:59:59 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 On Thu, 15 Mar 90 19:52:00 GMT Paul Hahn said: >Does anyone know of methods whereby an Novell Lan using ARCNET can be >gatewayed to a TCP/IP environment using Ethernet? Also, are there any >TCP/IP implementations that support ARCNET interfaces? > I have asked this same question several times in different groups. The few answers I did get did not help much. What I do know at this point is the following: 1. You can buy a gateway you place in the server which will allow any Novell Lan type to gateway 16 users. It requires Netware 2.1+. We have not tried it. 2. You can equip a PC with both the ARCNET card and an Ethernet card. This PC can then perform TCP/IP functions using the Novell server disk. You have to do this for each PC who wants access to TCP/IP. We have tried this, it works. 3. I have seen reports of people trying to implement TCP/IP on top of ARCNET. What seems to be the universal problem is the size of the MAX packet. ARCNETs limits require breaking the packets and this seems to be a problem. That is about all I have found to date. Anyone else care to comment?