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From: young@alw.nih.gov (Jeff Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Netware 386 NFS capabilities
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Date: 30 May 91 14:07:00 GMT
References: <42116@cup.portal.com> <1991May8.184807.29998@dsuvax.uucp> <1991May10.142129.18462@jhereg.osa.com> <5744@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
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In article <5744@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
|> In article <1991May10.142129.18462@jhereg.osa.com> andrew@jhereg.osa.com (Andrew C. Esh) writes:
|> >Back in the original message there was a comment about the Unix bigots who
|> >won't let IPX run on the backbone. The idea of networking is to try to get
|> >different machines connected to one another. My question is: Why are these
|> >people in charge of the net? They obviously do not have the right attitude.
|> 
It takes resources to support a protocol on a backbone.  You'd like to pick the protocols which will give the least number of headaches in the end.  I don't know what the reasons are at your site;  someone who has decided not to support IPX on a backbone is not automatically a Unix bigot.  From the little that I know about IPX, I'm very happy that we don't support it on our backbone - not that Novell isn't a great NOS.
 
|> With the availablity of tunneling on NW/386, why run IPX on the backbone 
|> anyway? Appletalk has been doing well for a long time using tunneling.
|> Even DECnet can be encapusulated. This tells me that the Backbone operations
|> folks and deal with TCP/IP connectivitity and those who need other protocols
|> can just tunnel through.

It's interesting that you say this.  These were some of the reasons which caused us to look into supporting an additional protocol, appletalk, on our backbones.  The idea of users configuring what are essentially low priced routers on our networks (gatorboxes, etc.) was a big factor in our decision to test appletalk.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Stan           internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu         Director, Networking 
|> Olan           uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob             and Systems Support
|> Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine

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