Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!warwick!kingpol!titan.kingston.ac.uk!sc_s425 From: sc_s425@titan.kingston.ac.uk (Paul Rock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: NetWare 3.11 Message-ID: <1991Feb25.095456.1@titan.kingston.ac.uk> Date: 25 Feb 91 09:54:56 GMT References: <1991Feb16.163210.2651@novell.com> Sender: news@kingston.ac.uk (Network News) Organization: Kingston Polytechnic Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: tethys In article <1991Feb16.163210.2651@novell.com>, brian@la.excelan.com (Brian Meek) writes: > In article <27B8940D.6172@ics.uci.edu> ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch) writes: >>Any dirt on the upcoming NetWare 3.11? I have heard a rumor that it will >>support Telnet sessions as a Novell service. This seems pretty far out >>to me, but I would love to have it!! > NetWare v3.11 includes TCP/IP support in terms of transport and network > protocols for the server only. The TCP/IP NLM supports IP routing and > SNMP. There is also a LAN driver, called IPTUNNEL.LAN, that encapsulates > IPX within UDP/IP packets. > > Upper layer services, including NFS server, FTP daemon and Line Printer > daemon are in an optional package called NetWare NFS. NetWare NFS installs > on the v3.11 server and offers NetWare file and print services to Unix > (and other TCP/IP equipped) clients. > > A new version of LAN WorkPlace for DOS was announced that provides TCP/IP > transport and upper layer services for DOS and Windows-based NetWare > clients using common ethernet, arcnet and token-ring LAN adapters. I've > sent an expanded version of the LAN WorkPlace for DOS press release to the > moderator of comp.newprod. It should be visible shortly. -- But the big question on my lips is: What will we have to buy to be able to make our NW3.1 network offer TCP/IP services if we don't want to use TSRs? It looks like LAN Workplace runs as a TSR. Anybody got any good ideas? ================================================================= | Paul Rock | | Assistant Computing Officer, | | Faculty of Science, +--------------------------------------< | Kingston Polytechnic, | Internal VMS Mail to: in%"rock@ux" | | Kingston-upon-Thames, | Internal UNIX Mail to: rock | | Surrey, +--------------------------------------< | England. | EMail to: rock@king.ac.uk | =========================^======================================+ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com