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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
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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