Subj : ping
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Wed Apr 14 2004 09:07 pm

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

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

 RJT> Leonard Erickson wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 LE>  
 -=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-
 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.
 LE>  
 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>  
 LE> Personal Netware is peer-to-peer, but it will talk to a netware
 LE> server. It just eats a lot of RAM. 
 LE>  
 LE> And Netware can run over IP. It just defaults to IPX for versions
 LE> before Netware 4

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

 LE> No, it's just that Netware pretty much defaults to IPX (and can be
 LE> hard to get to support IP) before version 4. 

 LE> If you don't need said dos box to talk to something running IP,
 LE> then there's no problem (other than RAM usage) with Netware 3.11 or
 LE> Personal Netware.

Well,  everything else here is TCP/IP.  I *could* do some sort of netware-type 
support on the linux box (mars,  fersinstance) but that strikes me as being on 
the cumbersome side at this point in time,  so I guess I'll just stick with ftp 
for now.

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