Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!RELAY.PROTEON.COM!acm From: acm@RELAY.PROTEON.COM Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: doing IPC on existing novell network Message-ID: <8805091333.AA17299@monk.proteon.com> Date: 9 May 88 14:35:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 40 ---------------------------------- Forwarded ---------------------------------- From: acm at proteonwebo Date: 5/9/88 9:30AM To: linus!aliant!rosenkra@husc6.harvard.edu at ARPA Subject: doing IPC on existing novell network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >does anyone know if it is possible to run two incompatible protocols on >any novell network? Some of the hardware drivers use protocol headers that can reject other packets addressed to Novell stations (such as broadcasts.) ProNET software all does that. ProNET-10 can run multiple types to the same machine with little difficulty. The same is true of Banyan software. >i think novel has both token and contention schemes (don't they?) >which say to me that as long as i have the network, it is mine for that >packet. the question then is do/will file servers ignore/pass on strange >messages to the proper handler? i would like to impliment an IPC >(interprocess communication) mechanism without tcp/ip if possible. it >must exist in an existing novell/banyan network used for file serving. They support about 35 or so different pieces of network hardware and that includes both types (actually 3 types.) They already have a protocol that DOES go through all the internetwork they set up. It is called IPX and is based upon XNS protocol. All packet drivers for the cards support this protocol and you can do station to station communications with this. You can get details from Novell by talking with David Hills in Provo. He is in charge of third party hardware/software vendors. He has put out a book on all the programming interface to talk with the drivers. It is called "Application Programmer's Guide to Netware and Function Call Reference." There is another protocol that is available with 2.1 Netware called SPX which is guaranteed delivery end-to-end. This can be used too. -Al Marshall, Proteon