st@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Stephen W. Thompson) (01/17/91)
THE PROBLEM
Get a Novel LAN to talk to a wide-area ethernet through one
gateway, allowing full IP services to each node (Mac and IBM-PC)
on the LAN. Do you know of a gateway that would accomplish this?
Even better, do you have any *experience* with such a gateway?
DETAILS
We have a small Novel LAN of PC's which we are about to expand to
include more nodes and Macs as well as PC's. At the same time we are about to
(finally) get access to the campus WAN via a single ethernet port. (One is
cheaper than many, you see.)
Services we need: Telnet and FTP from all nodes simultaneously, full IP
services (though I'm weak on IP terminology and concepts, I think it's clear if
I say we would like to run X-Windowing application on LAN machines as servers
(?) with the clients (?) located on the campus WAN), sharing of printers (that
would be useable by both Mac/PC), files on file servers of some sort.
What we do *not* need: Novel's IPX gatewayed across the WAN: We don't want to
share our LAN, we just want to share the WAN.
Summary of Requirements:
- Resource sharing benefits of LAN
- World-connectivity benefits of WAN connection
- Low cost: One or very few connections to campus ethernet
- IP services
- World peace (while we're at it :-)
Thanks a bunch! Lots of people have told us that this is a reasonable set of
desires, but that they don't know of the product(s) that can do it.
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Stephen W. Thompson, University of Pennsylvania, 215-898-4585
Institute for Research on Higher Education, thompson@a1.quaker.upenn.edu (best)
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