I'm working on getting a system running Linux this summer at our local high
school. I got some good pointers from the list about how to get the system to
interact with a Novell Netware server and to function as one. I'm not worried
yet about the servers, so I've saved that mail and will get back to it.
What I'm still unclear on is how Netware and IP interact... I know that both
run as a layer above the media protocol (ethernet in this case), but I thought
that Netware was the same layer as IP, and that one ran one *or* the other.
However looking at one of the PC's which still has Win'95 on it, it seems to
only have IP addresses. The Novell setup windows just seem to point to
servers.
Also, all the info people send w.r.t. Novell was how to compile in the IPX
protocol and to use some packages (mars-nwe?) to setup and test the server
setup in Linux. However, there was no discussion of addressing through
Netware to the outside world.
That leads me to suspect that rather than Netware being the equivalent to
TCP/IP, perhaps it is better the equivalent of NFS. This would mean that all
the PC's and the Linux box, all will have IP configured on them and that they
use Netware for file sharing. In this case, the Linux box should pretty much
sit on the net as normal and choose to play or not play with the Netware
servers and clients.
I am interested in this, because if I have a small cluster of Linux boxes,
they can be on the net and dual-boot. When they are running Linux, they can
send traffic on the same ethernet that has Netware running on it, but using
TCP/IP and NFS. If my suspicions are right, there should be no interference
between Netware and the Linux stuff...
If someone could take a brief moment to fill me in on the big picture here,
I'd really appreciate it.
Thanks.
-Michael
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