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Re: NetWare and FR
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Our school has a Novell NetWare 3.12 network installed. Now they want to buy
> a Frame Relay line to the 'net and connect the whole network through it. My
> guess is that they will want to put all the stuff on the NetWare server - it
> will be the DNS, the proxy, the web server, etc. I'd like to suggest them to
> set up a Linux machine instead, that will do all that work much better and
> faster, and will obviously get much load off the NW server which is
> overloaded anyway. My question is - if I connect that Linux machine to the
> 'net via the FR, can I later connect the NetWare network to it and make it
> use TCP/IP through this Linux box? It seems that the Linux box has to turn
> to be a kind of a NW server, for the network to recognize it and use it -
> after all NW is not a peer-to-peer but a server-based netork... Maybe
> someone has any info on implementing that?
you have a big mish-mush in your head about Netware, IPX adn IP. all the
above are very easy to implement. the Linux can act as a client to the
Netware, and can impersonate as a Netware or NT server itself... the FR,
unless a card in one of those two servers, will mean a router on the
network equally accessible by either the users or any of the servers.
plug: I install such networks for a living, if your school need
consultation or actual installation, and I also import Frame Relay cards
supported both by Linux and netware, and are less than half the price of
Ciscos... if you need my business please answer me privately, though, and
not in the list.
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