Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!mcnc!ecsvax!ugogan From: ugogan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jim Gogan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Solution to NetWare <--> SMTP Message-ID: <5418@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 12:07:09 GMT References: <16157@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: ugogan@ecsvax.UUCP (Jim Gogan) Organization: UNC - Chapel Hill Lines: 25 In article <16157@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> todd@SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Todd Booth) writes: > >There are products (Wollongong, FTP Software) to allow you to use your >Ethernet adapter for both TCP/IP and Novell. > >I'm beta testing Wollongong's new TCP/IP GW that works with Novell or >IBM NetBios network stations. This operates off a dedicated workstation >and supports SMTP with a simple user interface. > But doesn't Wollongong's product require EACH PC on the net tbe running their WIN/TCP for DOS? And at $395 a pop (as opposed to "POP" - little mail humor there), can't that get pretty steep? (We've got about 5,000 micros here that want connectivity to other systems and PC-based (i.e. transparent) mail system that doesn't isolate them from the rest of the world.) Let's see, 5,000 times $395 (figure, maybe, a 20% educational discount) .... yipes!!! -- Jim Gogan / Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill -- Jim Gogan mail:ugogan@ecsvax (UUCP/BITNET) Microcomputing Support Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599