Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL!snorthc From: snorthc@RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: NCSA and KA9Q ?? Message-ID: <8812061551.AA13574@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 5 Dec 88 14:32:57 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 This is in reply to Dave Crocker's note on Novell and IP. The problem we face is: Islands of Novell lans, TCP backbones, the Novell islands want to interoperate with each other. The Micom/Interlan product will not accomplish this. I caught the statement "That is, IP is encpasulated." in Mr. Crocker's reply. What I need to do is encpasulate the Novell IPX in TCP packets. That way, the Novell Islands could interoperate and use the TCP backbone to link. Is there any way to do this? The only idea I have is to purchase the asynch bridges from novell, connect then into the serial side of a TCP milking machine such as a 3Com(Bridge) CS/100 which could establish a telnet session. Then if we hold our mouths just right perhaps we would have a way of encapsulating IPX in TCP. Kludgy, expensive, to be sure. Novell lan<->asynch<->CS/100<->telnet<->CS/100<->asynch<->Novell lan What is the right way to solve this problem? Stephen Northcutt (snorthc@relay-nswc.navy.mil) (703) 663-7796 If nothing else... OSI will user in the era of the smart card.