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From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Supporting Novell Networks on an internet
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Date: 2 Mar 90 05:04:09 GMT
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haas@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas) writes:
>In article <29319@amdcad.AMD.COM> remaker@pepsi.amd.com () writes:
>>I have a problem.  Here at AMD we have a well administered highly heterogenous
>>TCP/IP and DECNET network.  Recently we have come under a great deal of pressure
>>to support novell LANs on the network.  Now I know that these protocols can
>>exist on the same backbone and be routed by our cisco routers.  I hope to get
>>advice on the following:

[...edited...]

>>2)  How can I monitor traffic from a Unix platform?  etherfind is no help and
>>    etherview is kind of ugly since I'd have to sit and disect individuall type
>>    8137 packets.
>
>I haven't found a method, if you find one I'd be interested.  The Network
>General Sniffer does a nice job of translating to English.

He's not the only one that would be interested...

>> I appreciate any help.  I'm highly concerned, since IPX was designed as a 
>> protocol for small LANs, I fear it will grossly misbehave in a WAN
>> environment.
>
>Novell just implemented XNS, it shows up that way on the Sniffer.

We're using it - Filenet thicknet into one card, one IBM 4/16mb token ring
card talk to a client ring, another to a backbone to 6 more client servers.
Only problem is that the Novell server won't bridge the XNS.
i.e. I can login to the Filenet from a ethernet workstation attached to the
hose just fine.  But the exact same station with a token ring card hooked to
either ring can't find the filenet server....  with or without source
routing...

BTW, don't flame me for inaccurate names.  5 months ago I did't know anything
about Novell - and I'm not the guy who has to make this mess work.
I'm just trying to get the gateways working, write a little Windows code
(anybody got recommendations on a dBase library for MS C? - final target
is Clipper-generated & maintained files), and beat 250-odd AT&T 386sx's 
into submission - several packages (including Windows 386) don't like their 
flavor of 800*600 VGA...

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