Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!rex!uflorida!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!sph From: sph@logitek.co.uk (Stephen Hope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Econfig or not Econfig, That is the Question. Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 12:08:16 GMT References: <1991Mar27.141423.25863@qut.edu.au> <1991Mar31.005452.10463@netcom.COM> Organization: Logitek Plc. Lines: 42 jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden) writes: >In article <1991Mar27.141423.25863@qut.edu.au> lynam@qut.edu.au writes: >>Gidday, >> I was wondering if there is any real reason to change to the 8137 type >>of packets on a fileserver? I don't need too, to use NSCA Telnet, >>because the -n option on packet drivers, lets me see ordinary fileservers. >> Someone told me that if an ordinary Novell server is attached to a >>heavily used backbone with heaps of different types of protocols, that the >>server can mistake certain types of packets and as a result can hang. >>Is this true? All I really want is to know, is if the above info is true. >If you are running Netware 2.15 and sharing a wire that is running *real* >ieee traffic (CLNS/TP4 in my case), then the Netware server will die with >an abend error. >When you make ipx talk DIX - the problem goes away. >IEEE CLNS/TP4 is the only protocol that I've seen Netware 2.15 choke on, and >I've only seen 2.15 servers die (never had 3.X to test). >So I'd guess that if you're NOT running *real* ieee on the same wire - you're >safe. >-- > John Robert Breeden, John, Most of the ieee based protocols seem to use multicasts, and so will coexist with Netware - I have seen ICL OSLAN on the same cable, as well as ieee 802.1D Spanning Tree traffic and OSI based bridge management (Retix). However, I have a feeling that some of the cheaper LAN card designs treat all multicasts as broadcasts, so the problem may also depend on the LAN card and driver. Stephen Hope > jbreeden@netcom.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."