Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!ENGR!WITTMANN From: wittmann@ENGR.WISC.EDU (art wittmann) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.novell Subject: Re: TCP/IP gateways Message-ID: <9001102024.AA28155@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> Date: 10 Jan 90 19:24:35 GMT Sender: Novell LAN Interest Group Reply-To: Novell LAN Interest Group Lines: 38 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL10] X-To: NOVELL%SUVM.BITNET@VM1.NoDak.EDU In-Reply-To: <9001101705.AB26996@erb1.engr.wisc.edu>; from "LARRY.H.BRADLEY%NRC.CA@VM1.NoDak.EDU" at Jan 10, 90 11:45 am > > Peter, a solution that we are playing with here (not in production > yet) is the WIN/ROUTE and WIN/TCP packages from Wollongong. WIN/TCP > is a standard TCP/IP package that runs on the workstation, EXCEPT > that it has a TCP/IP driver for Novell's IPX ... it sends TCP/IP > packets over whatever network cabling system you have ... Ethernet, > ARCnet, Token-Ring. > > WIN/ROUTE is a router (gteway) that runs not in the file server but > in a gateway PC (preferable, in my opinion, to running in the server > ... the server has enough to worry about!). It connects to both your > TCP/IP network and your Novell network (e.g. ARCnet), and acts as > the gateway. It works! > > The current version of the router has one problem ... it does not > support a default route (i.e. you can't just point it to another > router in your system to handle things that are not in the > WIN/ROUTE tables. The next release (which is in beta, I am awaiting > copy) solves this problem. > > So far, I am pleased with the Wollongong solution. > This sounds like a pretty interesting solution. I'd love more details like what tcp/ip apps are support (FTP, Telnet, SMTP, rlogin - whatever) and of course, what the cost is. For what it's worth, we use the Racal/Interlan TCP/IP gateway. It is buggy and has been buggy since it was introduced. The current version of the software it 1.3 and it does have significant bugs in it's management software and SMTP mail facility. Art =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Art Wittmann Phone: (608) 263-1748 Network Manager Email: wittmann@engr.wisc.edu Computer Aided Engineering Center or: wittmann@cae.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison