qiming@earth.unsw.oz (Qiming Zhou) (09/26/90)
Hello, I think this topic has been covered before but I have not kept the track. I am currently managing a PC-based LAN using Novell NetWare as well as some Sun workstations networed via TCP/IP. I have tried for quite a long time to make the PC LAN talk to TCP/IP. I know that there is some commercial software such as FTP's PC/TCP which can do this but I cannot really spend a lot of money for this. Then the question is the PD products such as NCSA's TCP/IP (or clones?). I have gone through a lot of information about this and finally worked out that if I want to make things working smoonthly I have to change the network protocol from Novell's 802.3 to 8137 using the program ECONFIG. I have tried and everything appears to work. Here is the problem. After I have modified NET$OS.EXE using ECONFIG, I can no longer communicate with other Novell servers on the campus (there are about 15 of them). After reading through the document I relise that every server has to be ECONFIGed and every workstation has to run packet driver - this is totally out of question here, unfortunately. Then I started to look through some old news and documents and discovered someone else also had similar problem and it appears that there are some solutions for this, but I do not have the clue where can I get help. Could anyone help me to solve the problem? Is there any packet drivers that support both 802.3 and 8137 packet protocols? Any information is greatly appreciated. Our system configuations: Thin Ethernet Cables IBM-PC, AT, 386s Server is a AT compatible 386 with a NE2000 Ethernet card Most workstations use Racal NI5210, NI6510 Ethernet cards Some workstations use Western Digital WD8003E Ethernet cards Some laptop computers (Toshiba) use Toshiba Ethernet cards We are running Novell Advanced NetWare v2.15 on the server v3.01 on workstations. Thanks in advance. Qiming Zhou Phone: 61-2-697-4400 School of Geography FAX: 61-2-313-7878 The University of New South Wales Internet: qiming@earth.gas.unsw.OZ.AU