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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Netware 386-TCP/IP coexistence
Message-ID: <1587.26f739ec@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 18 Sep 90 21:27:08 GMT
References: <1875@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <18371@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <18371@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au>, eric@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Eric Lindsay) writes:
> I  have a related question.  We have Netware 2.15, and run WD8003 cards
> using NCSA TCP.  Out student XT's with boot roms run telnet from the 
> Novell server, and the config.tel is set for RARP.  This is fine, except
> that you have to reboot the XT at the end of the telnet session.
> 
> We can't afford to move to Netware 386, and the only way we have seen to 
> run both is using the Garp Gateway software.  Does anyone know of other 
> methods that don't involve a reboot?


Get Release 7 of the Clarkson packet drivers from RODAN (They're free) and
use them instead of the normal IPX. What happens is that the PD talks to the
hardware, and decides if a packet is TCP/IP or NOVELL. Then it passes the
packet to the appropriate application thats currently running. NCSA Telnet
understands about packet drivers, and you have to regenerate an IPX to talk to
the PD instead of the hardware.

The packet drivers for the WD cards are simple all you have to do is have a
startup sequence like this

wd8003e -n -d 0x65 .....
packet
net3

[ Now the first line has to have the -d and -n. The -d is so that the packet
driver and boot rom code don't get tangled on startup, and the -n is so that
the servers can still talk normal Novell instead of being econfiged. The packet
is the ipx that was generated for the PD, and net3 we all know and love.

Hope this helps.


(PS. Yes I do run something similiar here, and have had no problems so far) 

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