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From: Staff.Hershman@KL.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP Versus WANG, ARCNET/NOVELL Netware, & Honeywell
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Date: 26 Jan 88 13:09:15 GMT
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    Date: 25 Jan 88 16:21:00 GMT
    From: spdcc!ftp!stev@husc6.harvard.edu  (Stev Knowles)
    Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
    Subject: Re: TCP/IP Versus WANG, ARCNET/NOVELL Netware, & Honeywell

    > Your assumption about TCP/IP & NETWARE co-existance is correct: they
    > don't (at this time).  The actual standard for IP over ARCNET is
    > 
    > -Philip

    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 
    work for ethernet, and was under the impression that it worked for all the 
    networking schemes that novell supported.

    stev knowles

The Micom-Interlan TCP Gateway will work with any Novell supported
networking schemes, but does not run TCP directly to the client PCs.
The way it works is that the server contains whatever card is used to
talk to the clients (eg: ethernet, starlan, arcnet (I suppose)), and
additionally an NP600A (with a chip serialized to the TCP Gateway
software).  Communication between client and server is done using the
Novell protocol and then converted to TCP/IP by the server and sent to
the ethernet backbone via the NP600A.

This has the added interesting property that only a single IP number is
needed for up to 32 simultaneous client PCs, making the administration
of "subnets" (I mean it in the sense of a PC lab, or a floor of offices)
much easier.  It is also very cost effective, because you can buy very
cheap networking cards (Starlan in my case) for the client PCs.  On the
negative side, some speed is obviously lost to the gatewaying.

-Ittai
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