Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!gatech!udel!udccvax1!anderer From: anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: NCSA Telnet / Packet Drivers / RARP Message-ID: <4172@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 15 Aug 89 23:37:03 GMT Reply-To: anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 30 I've got an ethernet with a number of PCs connected to a Novell file server. There are also Sun workstations (Sun OS 4.0) on the ethernet. It doesn't matter, but the ethernet is also connected to a ProNet-80 backbone. I want the PCs to simultaneously access the Novell server and our IP hosts. In the past we bought Excelan ethernet cards specifically beacuse they had this ability. However, the combination of packet drivers, a Novell configuration that supports packet drivers, and NCSA telnet which supports packet drivers is a good (and less expensive!) solution. Except for one thing: NCSA telnet support getting the IP address for the PC via RARP. That works fine if you use an NCSA direct-hardware definition. However, if you tell NCSA to use a packet driver, the RARP attempt fails. Before I dive into this (and it will be a dive - this is a new corner of things for me), let me ask a few questions: 1. Does anyone have a solution for this problem? 2. If there isn't a solution, is a solution even possible, or is there some complex reason for the status quo that can't be overcome? Thanks for any help. -- Dave Anderer Academic Computing and Instructional Technology University of Delaware