Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato.ac.nz!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: Routing IPX Packet Drivers Message-ID: <1991May12.161501.3659@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 12 May 91 04:15:01 GMT References: <33082@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 25 In article <33082@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, quinn@mgr.hjf.org (Kevin Quinn) writes: > Greetings, > > We are interested in running some sort of file server without losing the ability to telnet. NFS is what we do now but the security and management is lacking. Novell Netware 286 offers the packet drivers to do IPX and TCP simultaniously. To use the pack > et drivers you need to configure Netware to use packet type 8137. I have used cisco's to route regular IPX but am wondering if they will route the 8137 packets, or if it has no effect on routing. Also any comments on packet drivers in general would be g > reat. (I know, I know, wrong bboard) > > Thanks in advance... > > Kevin Quinn > quinn@mgr.hjf.org You haven't needed to use 8137 type packets for some time now (about a year) The current version of packet drivers (and all since version 7) support the standard IEEE 802.3 length field in the type field. -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | | Computer Support Person, Computer Science Department | | University of Waikato | |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================