xdaa374@ut-emx.uucp (William T. Douglass) (10/23/90)
Following are the responses I received concerning setting up a Novell Netware server with a 3Com 3C505 ethernet adaptor card. I want to thank the folks who responded to my cry for help, and I am very grateful to them as well as to the net community at large. The consensus is that the card will do fine, though it may not be the fastest adaptor available. Here are the replys, in no particular order: The 3C505 card works fine as a ethernet card in a Novell server, even though it is not the fastest card. -- Paul Guthrie chinet!nsacray!paul or pdg@balr.com or attmail!balr!pdg ============================================================================== One note I saw suggested using the 16-bit Novell card as it then made it impossible for Novell to blame problems on the NIC. I also have seen comments suggesting that the WD8013 had greater throughput than the 3C505, but have no evidence on that. -- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 ============================================================================== Having set up a few Mac to Novell connections, yes the 505 will work. It might be a bit slow (depending on what types of pc's you have connected). If you are just hooking up macs, then it will be fine. Be sure of the local talk card you use (that is if you are going to hook up a LaserWriter or some such). You might run into problems with the vaps install. The board made by Dayna Communications is the SAME board that Novell sells. Dayna makes the board for them! (I think that it is the nl1000). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Cantie Internet: cantie@cs.Buffalo.EDU | I speak only for me, LAN Systems BITNET: LSBRUCE@UBVM.BITNET | U.B. has nothing to 301A Computing Center BITNET: LSBRUCE@UBVMS.BITNET | do with it. ============================================================================== Actually, you're in luck. The 3C505 is one of the few ethernet adapters that is supported by Netware for Macintosh release 1.0. You don't say whether you plan to install the Mac VAP into the server, or if you plan to run it in an external "bridge," but I'd like to mention that the Mac VAP does consume quite a number of server processes, and it's possible that you may run out of server processes if you run the VAP in the file serverm along with other VAPs (BTrieve, tape b/u utils, etc.) If you have Netware for Macintosh 1.1 (newly released this fall) then congratulations -- we've been waiting for our copy for a couple of weeks. I liked Novell's implementation of Apple's file protocols. They seem to have done a pretty good job of interfacing Apple's calls to Novell's own "Netware Core Protocols." Good luck with your installation and if you get stuck you can call Carey Dietert with BL in Austin at (512) 458-4236. -- Chris Bradley | "There are three things which the public will Businessland Advanced Systems | always clamour for, sooner or later: namely, Dallas, Texas US | Novelty, novelty, novelty." cbradley@blackbox.lonestar.org | -- Thomas Hood 1799-1845 =============================================================== Again, thanks to all who responded. -- Bill Douglass, TCADA "I dreamed I was to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet." L. Anderson