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From: Christian.Kuehnke@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Christian Kuehnke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Converting 286->386 on Racore
Message-ID: <3963@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 03:34:52 GMT
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Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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mallsop@sunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop) writes:

>We are upgrading from Netware 286 to Netware 386, and want to connect both the
>new and old fileservers onto the same physical, Racore network.  (Racore is the
>brand of the packet driver, like Ethernet).

>When we place both servers onto the same cable, it becomes impossible to log
>into the 386 server.  We have polling set correctly, and the Racore distributor
>here claims it's not a Racore problem.  The strange thing is, all servers appear
>correctly on the slist, however when you try to log in, an error message comes
>up after the connection times out.

>I know that 2 servers can talk on the same cable, and am hopeing someone out
>there has had a similar problem.  Any help or ideas for me to try would be
>greatly appreciated.

Hmmm... No guarantees about that information, but i could imagine that
Novell disallows two servers running with the same software-serial-number to 
interact with each other... Are the servers running different licenses ?

Christian
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