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From: backman@vaxeline.COM (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Encapulation of Novell IPX packets over TPC/IP networks?
Message-ID: <1278@vaxeline.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 90 14:57:34 GMT
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Reply-To: backman@vaxeline.ftp.com.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Organization: FTP Software, Inc.
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>	Hmm, if all you want is to run TCP/IP and Novell at the same
>time on the same wire, this is quite easily done, as they coexist
>with no problem at all.  We have a tiny TCP/IP and Novell network
>both running at the same time with no special software.  Hooked to this
>network is an Apple Macintosh running Mac/TCP and AppleShare, a unix
>machine running TCP/IP, a couple DOS machines running Novell IPX and
>an OS/2 machine running PC/TCP for OS/2 and Novell Netware for OS/2.
>Everything works fine, except the OS/2 machine has to have two network
>adapters because there is no Clarkson packet driver for OS/2
>(FTP PC/TCP uses an NDIS driver which is compatible with 3Com and
>Microsoft's networking product, but not Novell).
>



FTP will be providing an ODI TCP driver at some point in the future.
This will alleviate the need for 2 cards in the OS/2 machine.  Sorry,
but at the time we started, NDIS was out there, and ODI was vapor. 

To answer any follow up questions some point in the future is defined
as 9 months from now at the earliest.  It will not be in our
1.1 release.



				Larry Backman
				backman@ftp.com