FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (03/22/91)
If novell supports NFS on their network does that mean they are still using IPX packets when they do it? Or does one have the option to use TCP/IP packets? I will be administering a computer with nearly 50 PCs networked to it but the division MIS group is in charge of the cable. They won't allow IPX packets on the cable which is why we are not even considering Novell. Does anyone know if Novell is planning to support TCP/IP in addition to IPX? Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu (James Roger Black) (03/23/91)
In article <40450@cup.portal.com>, FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: > > Does anyone know if Novell is planning to support TCP/IP in addition to > IPX? The following is excerpted from a Novell blurb on their new 3.11 release: NetWare v3.11 includes TCP/IP, a defacto standard protocol for fast, reliable interconnectivity between heterogeneous computing environments. The TCP/IP transport support in NetWare v3.11 provides the following capabilities: -o- IP tunneling of IPX packets, which allows NetWare subnetworks to be joined across a TCP/IP internetwork. DOS, Windows and OS/2 NetWare clients can access NetWare servers across TCP/IP internetworks. -o- Routing of IP packets across Ethernet, Token-Ring and Arcnet LAN adapters configured in the server to support TCP/IP. This allows LAN WorkPlace and NetWare NFS workstations to access TCP/IP computer systems throughout a TCP/IP internetwork. -o- Support for multiple industry-standard application program interfaces (APIs), which allow developers to write TCP/IP-fluent NLM server applications. APIs supported include Berkeley 4.3 Socket Library, the AT&T UNIX System V Streams/TLI interface and the Sun Microsystems/NetWise Remote Procedure Call (RPC) interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Black jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu Weeg Computing Center The University of Iowa "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." --Albert Einstein Disclaimer: I speak for nobody but myself. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------