Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!pacbell.com!ames!apple!amdahl!netcom!jbreeden From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Running TCP/IP and Novell concurrently under DOS (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <21947@netcom.UUCP> Date: 25 Jan 91 23:00:28 GMT References: Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 29 In article mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes: >A week or so ago, I asked the net whether or not it was possible to >run TCP/IP and Novell concurrently under MS-DOS, using the same >Ethernet board and cable. The answer is yes. To do so, you will need >a packet driver for your Ethernet board and the version of IPX that >uses the packet drivers, plus TCP/IP software for MS-DOS. > >1. Load the appropriate packet driver, using the -n switch to force >Ethernet II<->802.3 translation mode. > This works as long as there are no REAL 802.3 traffic on the wire along with the Novell 802.3 traffic. If you mix the two on the same wire (re: ISO and IPX), Netware can't figure out who's packet is who, and in step with The Wonderful World of Netware grabs all packets, sooner or later your Netware server dies with an abend error (at least w/ 2.15, have no idea how 3.X behaves - thought I'd put odds it's the same). The solution (besides replacing Netware) is run it as Ethernet 2. -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."