Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!mns
From: mns@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca (Michael Slavitch)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP packets through Novell 386 Server
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.024114.23584@Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Keywords: TCP IP
Organization: Computer And Network Architectures Inc.
References: <1233@taeva.UUCP> <1991Feb11.184423.16229@unipalm.uucp>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1991 02:41:14 GMT


Someone posted a hurrysome response vis-a-vis TCP/IP over a Novell
server. Usually, hurrysome answers are wrong. Here's the correction.


2.15 can only handle IPX packets, but under NetWare386, the ODLI (Open
Data Link Interface),  Novell can handle frames containing IPX and AFP
(Apple) protocols. The ODLI is a protocol-indepenent architecture.
That means that you'll be able to talk in any lingo you want if
someone has built a protocol handler for it. 
 
Soon, there will be a facility to carry TCP/IP if the envelope used on
the medium includes a protocol ID field.  This includes everything but
IEEE 802.3, (Ethernet II is the top choice of Novell and IP LANS, so
this is a moot point).    

If you want anything more specific, then it will cost you $10K and
require you to spend a wonderful three days in Provo, Utah.