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From: mro@thumper.bellcore.com (Mike R. Ordun)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.protocols.misc,comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Novell/TCP-IP linkage
Message-ID: <450@salt.bellcore.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:53:58 GMT
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Reply-To: mro@thumper.bellcore.com (Mike R. Ordun)
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I am looking for help in connecting a Novell network to a TCP-IP backbone.
The Novell network is implemented using 10baseT twisted pair ethernet.
The network is running release 3.1 of Netware.  Mail on the network is
cc:Mail.  My immediate interest is connecting the Novell net to the
TCP-IP backbone and running the SMTP mail package for cc:Mail.
Tried simply connecting the networks thinking that everbody would ignore
ethernet packets that were not the appropriate type for them.  This didn't
work and the Novell server started to complain about routing errors.
Have tried to contact Novell and actually talked to a "technical" person.
They could offer no insight but offer a long list of addons that I could
buy from them to "solve" the problem.

These are the possibilities as I see it:

1. I cannot simply connect the networks and need a bridge or router.  If
this is the case can anyone offer suggestions?

2. What I saw when the networks were connected was the result of the
sudden apperance of another Novell network.  How do I tell if this is
the case and how do I have to configure the Novell server differently
when there is more than 1 server.

Can anyone offer any insight or suggestions?

Thanks -- Mike Ordun mro@thumper.bellcore.com