Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!npd.novell.com!newsun!donp
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Novell 802.3
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.001819.18230@novell.com>
From: donp@na.excelan.com (don provan)
Date: 18 Apr 91 04:13:40 CDT
Sender: news@novell.com (
Lines: 16

The News Manager)
Nntp-Posting-Host: na
Reply-To: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
References: <280a1ac8@omega.uucp>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 00:18:19 GMT

In article <280a1ac8@omega.uucp> ash@omega.UUCP (Andrew Hardie) writes:
>...Does this mean that Novell's "OSI Support" is just
>protocol tunnelling of IPX inside 802.3 packets...

No.  Novell has an FTAM product which provides a full seven layer OSI
stack for NetWare 3.11.  This allows FTAM clients to access the
NetWare file system.  The IPX inside 802.3 is something Novell's been
doing for years.  It has never, to my knowledge, been referred to as
"OSI Support".
						don provan
						donp@novell.com