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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: BSDI Netware GW thinks its a server!?!
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Organization: St. Peter's College, US
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 08:08:11 GMT
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In article <4qug0u$qbd@blackice.winternet.com>, randi mitchell <randi@tcm-mn.com> writes:
> i am a netware guy who is trying to solve a problem
> that is causing some grief for users. they just
> had a BDSI netware ipx gateway machine installed.
> since then, when some workstations attempt to attach
> to their netware 4 server, te bsdi box responds to the
> netware GET NEAREST SERVER requests and then the
> workstations can not attach to the real server (nor
> are they attached to the gateway).
You need to contact BSDI support to get an updated version of the gateway
code. I've only seen this with LANworks boot ROMs - the client code we've
used (classic IPX/NETX, ODI/NETX and VLM's) seems to correctly ignore the
BSDI gateway.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
+1 201 915 9381 (voice) +1 201 435-3662 (FAX)