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From: haas%basset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Wide Area Novell Networks
Message-ID: <1990Dec28.120404.19912@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 28 Dec 90 19:04:04 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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There has been some local discussion of setting up a Novell network
serving a wider area than just the University.  As far as I can see,
there are three technical shortcomings in the Novell IPX protocol that
would make this difficult:

1) No end-to-end checksum.

2) RIP is dumb, has high overhead.

3) Flat name space would be hard to administer.

Unless/until Novell makes their protocol smarter, one possible option
would be to encapsulate IPX in TCP/IP and use the usual Internet transport,
routing and naming mechanisms.  Is anybody out there working on this?

Thnaks in advance  -- Walt