Subj : ping
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Wed Mar 31 2004 04:09 am

Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> I've had XT clones on my LAN. They load games off my server
 LE> (Netware) a lot faster than off the HD!
 LE>  
 RJT> Interesting!  What platform?  OS?
 LE>  
 LE> XT clones running DOS (not much else you can run on them), server
 LE> running Netware on a P-90 system.

 RJT> Ah.  I never did any netware stuff here,  though I have the option to
 RJT> do some under linux.  Dunno what that would require on the XT side of
 RJT> things,  though, and I have very few 8-bit cards -- in particular
 RJT> "Etherlink I" (early 3com cards) that are not terribly well
 RJT> recommended for use under linux.  They're also coax-only,  so I'd need
 RJT> different wiring and have to go into the coax port on my hub. 
 RJT> And what are you doing under dos to network things?  About the best
 RJT> I've been able to do on this box here is a packet driver and an ftp
 RJT> client. 
 LE>  
 LE> Netware Client on the DOS box. When I get around to upgrading the
 LE> Netware server, I'll be able to switch it from IPX to IP, and that
 LE> will let me move some stuff onyto it.

 RJT> I have this "personal netware" stuff here,  never messed with it.  I
 RJT> don't know that there's any interoperability with any of the tcp/ip
 RJT> stuff I'm currently running. 

 LE> Personal Netware is peer-to-peer, but it will talk to a netware
 LE> server. It just eats a lot of RAM. 

 LE> And Netware can run over IP. It just defaults to IPX for versions
 LE> before Netware 4

So are you saying that I need to get something later than that version to run 
on a dos box?

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