Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!gumby!dixon From: dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon(0000)) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Novell and TN3270 Message-ID: <6491@pdn.paradyne.com> Date: 11 Aug 89 01:19:40 GMT References: <9256@pucc.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@pdn.paradyne.com Reply-To: dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon) Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida Lines: 30 In article <9256@pucc.Princeton.EDU> LISAS@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes: >I am interested in hearing about any/all ways of doing TN3270 emulation >on a Novell network. > >Anybody out there doing this? Assuming that you are running Novell over ethernet: No problem. Use the BYU packet driver and BYU's version of NCSA Telnet. We do this all the time. The Packet driver is the driver for the ethernet card, and it allows multiple applications (in this case novell's IPX genned for the packet driver and NCSA Telnet) to share the interface. You can even leave the PC in Telnet (which allows FTP host) and logged into the Novell server, FTP into the PC from somewhere else and put and get from network drives. If however you are on a Token Ring, then I have pity for you if you need tn3270. The most cost effective solution we found for that problem was to more anyone who wanted telnet or tn3270 to the ethernet. You can get token ring to ethernet bridges for telnet traffic, but it isn't cheaper then 10-20 ethernet boards and doesn't offer nearly the performance of really being on the ethernet. Also if your Novell Server goes down, you lose the TCP/IP bridge as well. Tom Dixon AT&T Paradyne uunet!pdn!dixon