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From: pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Changing from lantastic to netware!
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Date: 28 Nov 90 06:36:13 GMT
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I have had two netware labs running for 2 and 3 years each, not too
much problem.  
I inherited an old lab to take care of: zenith286 server running a
newer version of lantastic, clients are slow 4mhz zenith 100 or 148 pcs
with just 2 floppies and 640k.  They use a 2mb arcnet network.
Problem: (I have posted before)  When the clients boot simultaneously,
beep,beep,beep  what I think is too much contention, clients can't connect
and get messages such as error on sector C: (the server).  All clients
and the server must then be rebooted (corruption!).  If I start just
a few machines at a time, everything runs fine, even networked wordperfect.

What the heck is going on?  I am fed up with it.  I have never seen a 
similar problem with netware.  Is this common to networking (i.e. so
much contention the network or client crashes)?  Where is the
small degree of fault-tolerant software protocol?

Of course our netware's run ethernet...faster than our arcnet.

ANYWAY, I have decided to hang a netware server off of the old lab and
install one of the arcnet boards in it and try to boot the clients with
netware.  I hope this will solve the problem.  Or will it?

In case I am overlooking some 'feature' of lantastic that I have not used,
I will apologize now...I am very comfortable with netware though.

What do you think?  Will my switch help?

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