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From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: 6300 networking
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.024608.12819@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
References: <15266@leadsv.UUCP> <1991Feb3.035942.23719@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 02:46:08 GMT

In article <1991Feb3.035942.23719@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> beh@po.CWRU.Edu (Bob E. Hetzel) writes:
>
>In a previous article, hashemi@leadsv.UUCP (Rahmat O. Hashemi) says:
>
>>
>>Howdy net.folk. A friend is trying to get some 6300 systems
>>networked using Novel Netware. Is this possible? Anyone out there
>>has done it? Can you shed some lite on the subject please?
>
>it can be done, but there are memory conflicts of 
>some sort with the standard at&t starlan fiber card
>that we use here at case western reserve univ.  we
>have fixed the problem by using 3com cards that have
>onboard memory.  cabletron cards also work (at least on
>a 6300+) .

we have a classroom full of single floppy 6300's which used to connect to a
3B2 using starlan 1 NIC's and starlan software.

we dropped a starlan 1 NIC into a Novell server, plugged it into the hub,
rebooted the 6300's with a novell style boot disk and whamo, instant novell
network.

i was quite pleased with how smoothly it changed over.

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