cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) (07/28/90)
Does anyone know about an ARCNET driver and card that can be attached to a UNIX system? ARCNET is one of the cards/drivers that Novell uses in their LANS. Untimately, I would like to attach an ARCNET LAN (IPX) to a LAN running ethernet (TCP/IP) and do the protocol conversion on the UNIX box. -- The UUCP Mailer
jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) (07/28/90)
In article <1990Jul27.183351.5374@eplrx7.uucp> cristy@eplrx7.uucp (John Cristy) writes: > Does anyone know about an ARCNET driver and card that can be attached > to a UNIX system? ARCNET is one of the cards/drivers that Novell uses in > their LANS. Untimately, I would like to attach an ARCNET LAN (IPX) to a > LAN running ethernet (TCP/IP) and do the protocol conversion on the > UNIX box. Run the packet driver ipxpkt on top of the IPX running on the Arcnet and your favorite TCP-IP that supports the packet driver on top of that. That gets TCP-IP running on the Arcnet card. Configure KA9Q as a router with two cards in the PC. One an Arcnet card and the other an ethernet card. Run IPX on the Arcnet card and ipxpkt on top of IPX. Then run just a packet driver on top of the ethernet board. Set up KA9Q to route between the two cards. What you now have is TCP-IP running on the Arcnet (tunneled through IPX) to KA9Q acting as a router on the PC. KA9Q will strip the IPX header off the Arcnet side and ship it out as raw IP on the ethernet side and visa versa going from ethernet to Arcnet ie: the "protocol conversion" is done in the KA9Q router. (PCROUTE w/ packet driver support also works). -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.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."