Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!interlan!backman
From: backman@interlan.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Versus WANG, ARCNET/NOVELL Netware, & Honeywell
Message-ID: <522@interlan.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jan 88 12:44:08 GMT
References: <315728.880124.PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> <107@ftp.COM>
Reply-To: backman@interlan.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Organization: MICOM-Interlan, Boxborough, MA (1-800-LAN-TALK)
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>>     [ ... ]
>>     forum.  I see no evidence to indicate to me that you can get the
>>     ARCNET/Novell Netware to interoperate via TCP/IP at the present
>>     time.  Again, any comments from users having experience in trying
>> Your assumption about TCP/IP & NETWARE co-existance is correct: they
>
>sorry, but i was under the impression that Novell offered a card for their
>file server (a micom interlan NP-600) that allowed for tcp-ip access from any
>novell netware to a tcp-ip ethernet. i am under the impression that they
>are running tcp-ip buried inside their own packets, and the file server 
>is stripping them out and passing them to the NP600. i have seen this 


	[]
		Disclaimer - I am prejudiced, this is my product.

	Micom - Interlan is shipping a Netware\TCP gateway.  The gateway
	consists of an NP600 board placed within the file server.  This
	board runs our standard TCP image.  The gateway also consists of
	processes within the file server that act as daemons (FTPD, RWHOD,
	SMTPD, etc.).  An additional process, the NETBIOS listener, is used
	to communicate with workstations.

	Workstations ( up to 31) talk to the file server and ultimately the
	gateway via NETBIOS.  Application programs (FTP, TELNET et. al)
	ported from Bsd 4.3 encapsulate socket calls within NETBIOS NCB's
	and send the socket calls to the gateway where they are passed to
	the NP600.  There are no TCP packets  encapsulated within Netware
	IPX packets, instead socket calls are encapsulated within NETBIOS
	RPC's.

	Any Novell supported subnet can talk to TCP hosts using the gateway.
	I have seen it running on at least 6 different types of media,
	including ARCNET, and assume that it is running on at least another
	6 types.

	For more information, please contact me directly.


						Larry Backman
						Micom - Interlan