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- From: alanbac@microsoft.com (Alan Back)
- Subject: Re: W4Wg vs. ARCnet vs. NetWare?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.020557.16587@microsoft.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:05:57 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec23.022316.26708@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
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- In article <1992Dec23.022316.26708@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) writes:
- >I've sent a note to Microsoft about this subject but haven't heard back
- >yet (not surprising, since their FAX and letter unit is quite slow).
- >Basically, my question is, can NetWare 2.x and Windows for Workgroups
- >coexist on top of an ARCnet network? The W4Wg manual says no, but I've
- >also hear that W4Wg doesn't coexist with NetWare properly anyway, so I
- >thought I'd get everyone's experience.
-
- Netware Connectivity for WFW provides an NDIS shim that is linked with
- IPX.OBJ to produce an NDIS 2.0.1 compliant IPX transport. This transport
- can then be used along with the VNB (NetBEUI) transport on the same network
- card (as per NDIS). This is supported on both Token Ring and Ethernet, but
- not on ARCNet. This is not to say that VNB (NetBEUI) alone is not supported
- on ARCNet. It is. This is done through the NIC driver presenting ARCNet
- packets to the above transport as Ethernet packets when packets come off
- the wire, and then translating the Ethernet packets to ARCNet before
- transmission on the ARCNet media. Netware, however, uses a fragmentation
- scheme when transmitting IPX over ARCNet that is not currently supported
- by either the NDIS ARCNet drivers, nor any NDIS transports. That's why
- we don't support a WFW workstation with IPX conversing over ARCNet with
- a Netware 2.X server. It's sending out, and expecting to receive, fragmented
- IPX packets over ARCNet. We're currently discussing possible solutions,
- however, and hope to have one in the future.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Alan Back
- Microsoft Corporate Systems Engineering
-