From: vinod@kailash (Vinod Kulkarni) Subject: Re: Novell IPX under DOS emulator? Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1993 02:21:22 GMT
jmaclean@fox.nstn.ns.ca (James MacLean) writes:
: In article <729119287snx@eyrie.demon.co.uk> df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) writes:
: >From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus)
: >Subject: Re: Novell IPX under DOS emulator?
: >Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1993 14:08:07 +0000
: >In article <1kumsdINN2bm@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> J.R.Jagger@sheffield-hallam.ac.uk writes:
: >> Hi peeps,
: >> I doubt it can, but is the DOS emulator up to running
: >> Novell IPX, or any other network software? If it can
: >> it opens some great possibilities here?
: >
: >Ok you asked for it,
: >
: > Yes.. horrible idea here, we provide the DOS emulator with a
: >packet driver interface which will access the network card through the
: >normal OS calls. Then you run PKTIPX.
: >
: > DF
: >--
: >Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk
: Yes, this would be great, even this would allow pdether, IPXODI
: stacks. Then the DOS session could use all the DOS TCP/IP softwre.
: JES
: ===
I too vote for it. By having another linux special program over dos emulator,
we can have a replacement for Charon gateway (mails to and fro Novell
Netware users). Another possibility is that we can make Netware File
system made available to any number of unix machines through NFS.
This solution is real great than conventional methods! And since we donot
need to play with any IPX protocols at all, I suppose there won't be any
copyright violation!
-Vinod.