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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: ARCNET/ETHERNET routing
Keywords: arcnet,ethernet
Message-ID: <1991Jun01.134058.20164@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 1 Jun 91 13:40:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: Daisy.1991Jun01.134058.20164
References: <1991May31.060428.1643@unibase.uucp>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <1991May31.060428.1643@unibase.uucp>,
roe@unibase.uucp (Roe Peterson) writes:
> I've got an arcnet novell 2.20 setup;  is there some way to
> set up the dedicated server to route incoming arcnet ip-in-arcnet
> packets as ip packets over an ethernet?

I don't know what you mean by "the dedicated server".

Do you really mean ip-over-arcnet (as per RFC 1051), or
ip-over-ethernet-over-ipx-over-arcnet (ip-over-ethernet as per RFC 894,
ethernet-over-ipx as supplied by the IPXPKT packet driver, and
ipx-over-arcnet as supplied by Novell), or ip-over-802.2-over-ipx-over
arcnet (ip-over-802 as per RFC 1042, 802.2-over-ipx as per RFC 1132) or
something else?

Not much software supports ip-over-arcnet (ka9q is the only one I know
of, though there are probably others).

Woolongong WIN-TCP uses ip-over-802.2-over-ipx, and can route between
that and ip-over-ethernet, but I don't know of anything else that uses
ip-over-802.2-over-ipx.

Many people are using ip-over-(ipxpkt)ethernet-over-ipx, and this is
what I would recommend.  It works well, and has the advantage that
software can treat it just like any other ethernet packet driver.  In
particular, PC Route or KA9Q can be set up to route between it and
ip-over-(genuine)ethernet, and all the popular packet driver
applications work with it.

> The goal is to permit telnet (etc) to access a unix ethernet without
> buying ethercards for all the servers.

With recent versions of IPXPKT, a single PC-based IP router (PC Route or
KA9Q) can be used to link your Novell net to your TCP/IP ethernet, even
if your Novell net is actually composed of several networks joined by
Novell "bridges" (which are really IPX routers).

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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