Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 09:33:46 -0600 (MDT)
From: Roger Ivie <IVIE AT cc DOT usu DOT edu>
Subject: [opendos] Personal Netware vs The Real World
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OK, I've installed OpenDOS on my spare PC which may or may not be at work
(I'm just playing with OpenDOS at the moment, not evaluating it for any 
company for which I may or may not work). Anyway, on this local network there
is a Netware 4.02 server. The Netware server is speaking 802.3 packets. I'm
having a really rough time getting the Personal Netware bits shipped with
OpenDOS to do anything really interesting on my network.

The IPXODI shipped with OpenDOS is verion 3.00 ALPHA 3, which I take to mean
a test version. VLM complains that "The IPX interface does not support
checksums...make sure it is not bound to a board doing 802.3". Since I need
to do 802.3 to speak to my Netware 4.02 server, this kind of makes it
no fun at the moment.

Furthermore, once I have the PNW stuff loaded, Task Manager refuses to quit.

For the moment I'm using the Novell stack from the previous MS-DOS incarnation
with no trouble. I've not yet tried pulling bits from that installation and
plugging them into PNW to see if they work.

Anyone else playing with PNW? Anyone else doing so on a network that includes
a Novell server?

Now I just need to dredge up my old Rainbow software so I can use TaskMgr
to poke a background session out the serial port to my VT220...

Roger Ivie
ivie AT cc DOT usu DOT edu