chen@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bill Chen) (06/08/91)
Would someone out there who understands the whole business of Novell (3.1) internal net numbers and external net numbers and also how this stuff interacts with ciscos give a summary of how it works? I seem to see internal numbers showing up on the routers, but that doesn't seem to match the definition Novell gives of what those net numbers are supposed to be. In case it makes a difference, we run 8.1(14) cisco sftwre. Thanks. Bill Chen Columbia University
wobrien@hanama.webo.dg.com (Walt O'Brien) (06/08/91)
> > > Would someone out there who understands the whole business of Novell > (3.1) internal net numbers and external net numbers and also how this > stuff interacts with ciscos give a summary of how it works? Network numbers are used by netware to do routing. Think of network numbers like internet subnet addresses. Netware runs a routing information protocol (RIP) which works much like TCP/IP rip. It allows gateways to advertize what networks are reachable via it. External network numbers are network numbers associated with physical cables. Netware does have the notion of more than one network number associated with a physical cable but that is only using different frame types. For example, you can have one network number associated with novell using 802.3 frames on a lan and a separate one for novell using ethernet_ii (type 8137) frames on the lan. The "host" portion of a netware address is generally the ethernet address of the board and thus only the network number is assigned by the user. Prior to 386 netware and portable netware this was about all you needed to know. With 386 netware, they introduced the notion of internal network numbers. These numbers are logical networks to which the netware services are connected. Thus, the file and printing services on 386 and portable netware servers are on the internal logical network and route to that network via the physical network to which the file server is connected. The "host" portion of the netware address for file servers on internal networks is generally "1". FYI, Walt > > Thanks. > > Bill Chen > Columbia University > -- Walt O'Brien Walt_OBrien@dg.com Data General Corp. {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!Walt_OBrien Westboro, Ma (508)-870-6001 Fax (508)-898-2785
forster@cisco.com (Jim Forster) (06/08/91)
Bill, The best explanation of Novell routing I've seen is in the "Netware Application Notes", Sept. 90 issue. -- Jim