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- Subject: Re: Both protocols IPX/SPX and TCP/IP on OS/2 machine ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.200313.18423@midway.uchicago.edu>
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:03:13 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec22.193214.12973@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Dec22.193214.12973@cs.tu-berlin.de> ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes:
- >in my new project I need to have both protocols, IPX/SPX and TCP/IP, on one
- >OS/2 machine with one network adapter (16-bit SMC). At the moment I am
- >running OS/2 1.32. I will update to OS/2 2.1x later. The TCP/IP product I
- >am using is IBM TCP/IP 1.21 for OS/2 1.32 and later.
- >IPX/SPX is needed to connect to a Netware 3.1 server for both file access
- >and access to an Oracle DBMS running on the Netware server.
- >TCP/IP will be used for an RPC-based application and to import/export
- >NFS file systems.
- >I heard about ODI drivers for OS/2. Is that what I need or are there any
- >better multi-protocol solutions ?
-
- Either ODI or NDIS will do the trick. In either case you need to
- insert a "shim" driver to translate from one to the other.
-
- OS/2 is probably the best platform for this application, and it does
- work just fine. In the past it has been a bit of a bear to configure,
- but it does work quite well. IBM now offers a product called Network
- Transport Services/2 (list $55) which helps ease installation quite a
- bit, and I suggest you look into it. Combine that with IBM TCP/IP and
- the Novell NetWare Workstation Kit for OS/2 2.0 and you're all set.
- (I'm only familiar with OS/2 2.0, but the same principles apply to
- OS/2 1.3, really. I'm just not sure that NTS/2 works with OS/2 1.3 --
- worth investigating.)
-
- >The same problem will arise for DOS/Windows clients at a later stage of the
- >project. Is there a similar solution ?
-
- Well, yes you can get it working (after a bit of tedious
- installation). Is it worth it? Probably not. The OS/2 approach, to
- say the least, is more elegant.
-
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