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From: PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU ("Philip A. Prindeville")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: TCP/Novell gateway
Message-ID: <315742.880125.PAP4@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 88 05:08:45 GMT
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    The two protocols will coexist quite nicely on the same
    physical network.  The only ugly part is that getting
    NetWare and whatever TCP/IP product you use to share the
    same network interface is unlikely at best, so you either
    boot up with the NetWare shell OR with TCP/IP...
    I suppose one could arbitrate usage of the single interface,
    but it would be tricky.

Not so!  John Romkey of FTP Software, Inc. proposed a standard
datalink level access method for applications to send and
receive MAC level packets over various network interfaces.  The
technique was generic enough to support ethernet, pronet, token
ring (any link level protocol that identifies the above
protocol in a standard way, i.e. packets containing a type field).
Several groups had expressed interest in having Netware co-reside
with another protocol suite (often TCP/IP), and as a result
Novell now supports this 'standard'.  Note that it is not quite
as fast as running directly on top of the interface, but then the
interoperability might be more important.

James VanBokkolen posted a copy of this to PCIP last October 18 or
there abouts, so check the archives.

-Philip