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Re: IP on Netware

1998-10-10 10:46:30
Subject: Re: IP on Netware
From: Larry Chisesi <lchisesi AT COCOMP DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 08:46:30 -0600
Thank you for your comments.  Our environments is fairly self contained,
desktop users access Novell servers as file servers, NT and UNIX systems run
particular applications, very little need for back and forth between the
systems.  I see the IP soley for connection to ADSM.

Larry Chisesi

RMF wrote:

> We run IPX to the desktop,IP to our ADSM MVS host and provide IP access to
> our Novell servers via ftp and NFS Gateway/Server with no real problems. We
> have @ 50 Novell servers, the same number of NT servers. several thousand
> enduser nodes and a few hundred Unix systems all of which interact via IPX
> or IP . I don't think that you'd have too many problems as long as you
> manage the environment fairly well. The biggest problem that you might have
> is phantom mount points if you do a lot of NFS file shares and have systems
> abending, we don't see many (any) IP hangs, we have had issues with latency
> to the ADSM host which has made us increase the timeout values in some
> cases.
> -Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Chisesi <lchisesi AT COCOMP DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 3:57 PM
> Subject: IP on Netware
>
> >We are running IPX with ADSM and want to use IP on some of the Novell
> >servers instead.  Several people in our group report negative
> >experiences with running both protocols, which we would do, only using
> >IP to connect to our RS/6000.
> >
> >Are there any success stories out there?  We are concerned that IP
> >hangs, for example,  could force us to reboot servers more than we care
> >to.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Larry Chisesi
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