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From: karinc@isc.intel.com (Karin Coffee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Encapulation of Novell IPX packets over TPC/IP networks?
Message-ID: <1062@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 15 Dec 90 03:15:14 GMT
References: <1770@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <wsadler.660865175@copper>
Organization: Intel Supercomputeur Systems Division, Beaverton, OR
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In article <wsadler.660865175@copper> wsadler@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (william sadler) writes:
>lunde@casbash.acns.nwu.edu (Albert Lunde) writes:
>
>>Our campus network has various Novell networks connected to the campus 
>>TCP/IP network, and we are using ftp and telnet and testing mail bridges 
>>to SMTP,  but no-one seems to have a way to link the Novell nets together.
>
>>Another approach that has been discussed would be getting our campus 
>>network to route multiple protocols (IPX and IP) directly.   This may be 
>>feasible for the backbone which has commercial (cisco) routers.  However, 
>>the outlying parts of the network go thru "Morrison" PC routers and UNIX 
>>boxes that can only deal with IP, not IPX.
>
>
>We have just started routing IPX with our ciscos.  So far I haven't
>had any problems.  The backbone is 8137 and because of the new cisco
>ROMs you can have an 802.3 network attached to it that people running
>8137 can still see.  Before we had a single IPX network with separate IP
>networks (i.e. we were routing IP but not IPX).  Now we are routing
>both.
>
>Too bad about your Morrison PC Routers or it could work great.

We are running Excelan's LAN Workplace for DOS in conjunction with Novell.
They don't combine packets, just run side-by-side on the network.  In order
to do this, we are using Excelan's EXOS 205T intelligent NICs, but the new
version of LAN Workplace is due out in early 1991.  It is supposed to work with
"dumb" cards.

Using Windows with Novell, I keep an open telnet session to our Sun network,
and then work on the Novell network in other windows.  It works well.  I'm
looking forward to seeing the complete Open-Data-Link from Novell where you
can do TCP-IP and IPX and some other protocols at the same time through
Novell.


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