Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!TWG.COM!dcrocker From: dcrocker@TWG.COM (Dave Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: NCSA and KA9Q ?? Message-ID: <8812031250.AA15265@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 2 Dec 88 22:15:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 The Novell-related product, cited by James Van Bokkelen, is produced by Micom/Interlan. It is not the only solution to the problem of connecting Novell users from their proprietary network onto an Ethernet. Wollongong has a product which accomplishes this task, using a very different approach: Each user's PC becomes a full-fledged IP host. (Its own IP address, the ability to act as client and/or server, etc.) The proprietary network is then attached via our DOS-based IP router product; it is nothing more than an IP router. The wrinkle that makes this work is that the router and the user's pc communicate over Netbios datagrams or, in the case of Novell's Netware, over IPX, their network datagram protocol. That is, IP is encapsulated. The current release of WIN/TCP for DOS has an "up-call" programmatic interface. The version entering beta test has a Berkeley sockets emulation. Dave Crocker VP, Engineering The Wollongong Group