marka@dsinet (Mark Anacker) (02/22/91)
Hi,
In a recent issue of Network World, there was an announcement that the
latest version of NetWare 386 (3.11) will have full TCP/IP support,
including NFS to the server. We are in the process of designing a 50-node
or so PC network into our existing TCP/IP Unix net, so this news was
greeted with a great deal of excitement (and a generous portion of
skepticism).
Assuming they can pull it off (and deliver next month), we'll probably
go with them. Does anybody out there have any information of this version
of NetWare that they are allowed to share? I don't want you to break any
agreements, but we need to make some decisions here soon and I would like
to get any input I can.
Thanks.
--
Mark Anacker ...{!dsinet,!toybox}!marka
Digital Systems International, Inc. Redmond, WA USA (206) 881-7544
"We have a massive leadership vacuum in this country...
and we need to change bags" - Sen. Belfryjbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden) (02/23/91)
In article <499@elroy> marka@dsinet (Mark Anacker) writes: >Hi, > In a recent issue of Network World, there was an announcement that the >latest version of NetWare 386 (3.11) will have full TCP/IP support, >including NFS to the server. We are in the process of designing a 50-node >or so PC network into our existing TCP/IP Unix net, so this news was >greeted with a great deal of excitement (and a generous portion of >skepticism). > The only "gotcha" I've seen so far is with the NFS part. It seems you can NFS mount a Netware volume onto a Unix box but you cannot NFS mount a Unix filesystem onto the Netware box (ie: I can mount Netware onto my Sun, but I can't mount my Sun onto the Netware server and make it available to my Net- ware PCs). The other question is: If I implement 3.11's "IPX encapsulated in TCP-IP", do I have to mantain the TCP-IP/IPX routing tables by hand? -- John Robert Breeden, jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."
brian@ca.excelan.com (Brian Meek) (03/06/91)
The News Manager) Nntp-Posting-Host: ca Reply-To: brian@ca.novell.com (Brian Meek) Organization: Novell, Inc. - San Jose, California References: <499@elroy> <25188@netcom.COM> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 1991 20:34:39 GMT In article <25188@netcom.COM> jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden) writes: >In article <499@elroy> marka@dsinet (Mark Anacker) writes: >>Hi, >> In a recent issue of Network World, there was an announcement that the >>latest version of NetWare 386 (3.11) will have full TCP/IP support, >>including NFS to the server. We are in the process of designing a 50-node >>or so PC network into our existing TCP/IP Unix net, so this news was >>greeted with a great deal of excitement (and a generous portion of >>skepticism). >> > >The only "gotcha" I've seen so far is with the NFS part. It seems you can >NFS mount a Netware volume onto a Unix box but you cannot NFS mount a Unix >filesystem onto the Netware box (ie: I can mount Netware onto my Sun, but I >can't mount my Sun onto the Netware server and make it available to my Net- >ware PCs). > This ability is an intrinsic feature of Portable NetWare implementations for systems that also support NFS. Providing the integrated name-space support for DOS, OS/2 (HPFS), MacOS, FTAM and UNIX on remotely mounted NFS volumes from NetWare v3.11 is not a trivial task... It can be done, but since there are numerous options available, it was not considered critical for the first release. The goal of NetWare NFS is to meet UNIX clients on there own terms, making NetWare appear as a really fast UNIX system. >The other question is: If I implement 3.11's "IPX encapsulated in TCP-IP", >do I have to maintain the TCP-IP/IPX routing tables by hand? >> Yes. The encapsulation driver needs to be told which IP addresses should receive UDP unicast packets (containing the IPX datagram), in lieu of IPX broadcasts. To IPX, the IP internet appears as a single "virtual" IPX network. Not a panacea for running NetWare Core Protocols via TCP/IP, but a useful first step. The important thing is that the tunneling is transparent to all existing applications that expect to see an SPX/IPX protocol stack and API. brian ____________________________________________________________________________ Brian Meek Novell, Inc. - 2180 Fortune Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 Internet Mail: brian@novell.COM Phone: (408) 473-8375