langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner) (06/21/88)
There's this 3+ network of PC's and 3stations, see, and there's this Sun
386i/150 Roadrunner that's gonna be a dedicated dialup server. Unfortunately,
the Roadrunner cant be tied directly into the 3+ network (sez a Sun rep), so as
a temporary fix I'm planning on having a PC dedicated as an intermediary. I
figure I'll put a Sun PC ethernet board in and use NFS to give the PC access to
the Sun's filesystem, and additionally put a 3C501 board in to allow access to
the 3+ net's fileserver. Then I'll just run a batch file on this intermediary
that will do the necessary transfers from one side to the other.
And now, the rash of questions:
I know this is ugly, but will it work? Or will the two boards have some hairy
interrupt contention between them? How should I really be doing it? Also, for
future installations, we're planning on phasing in Novell stuff. I'm pretty
new to network hardware and almost as new to network software. What do I need
to do to allow the network of PCs and the Sun to interact more transparently?
Will the fact that we are moving in the direction of Novell be helpful? What
do you think? Please mail me.
Be seeing you...
Lang Zerner langz@athena.mit.edu ihnp4!mit-eddie!athena.mit.edu!langz
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