In my (admittedly limited) experience Debian does just fine with Netware, provided that you stick with a 2.0.x series kernel. The 2.2.x series seems to have some very nasty problems with the IPX protocol (brings down just about everything on our network within moments, with a massive flood of broadcast packets). Mind you, I've only found two other individuals who have experienced this problem, so it's quite likely that our network has some sort of odd situation that brings out this problem. At any rate, I've forwarded all the information I have to the linux-kernel mailing list... hopefully someone will isolate the problem soon.
If you'd like to try a 2.2.x kernel anyway, just pick a time of low activity. If you have this problem, you'll be able to tell almost immediately. On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:06:31AM -0700, Paul Schwebel wrote: > I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't > actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such > things as potentially bringing the server down. I can't afford to do that in > our live environment, and we don't yet have a good test environment. > > I wanted to find out what experiences anyone's had with using a Linux box as > a network client in a Novell environment, especially 4.11 or better. How > well do the ncpfs utilities work? or do you use something else? > > Thanks,
