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From: ntprlr@eskimo.com (NightProwler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: BOOTP through server
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:42:14 GMT
Organization: Ghost in the Shell
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

A R Anderson (alastair@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz) wrote:
: We have PCs that use telnet to communicate with central systems, with a
: Novell server (3.11) functioning as an IP router. In most respects, TCP/IP
: works correctly. However, one of the central systems is a BOOTP server and
: it does not receive BOOTP requests that are generated by the PCs. Does
: anyone have a way of making this part of TCP/IP work?

So what you're saying is that you have a 3.11 server acting as an IP router
between two IP sub-nets....and the diskless clients are on one side of the
router and the bootp server is on the other side....is that it?

Now, I've never actually read how bootp works, nor seen it in action, but my
understanding is that the card wakes up and sends out a broadcast message to
any bootp server on the same subnet to see if someone can send it a boot
image...at least that's my understanding of it.

I think I'm wrong on this...because that would mean that you'd need a bootp
server on each subnet to boot the clients on it.

I'm curious as to how bootp works...anyone know the RFC that defines it?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: bpc@unb.ca (Brian Cassidy)
Subject: Re: BOOTP through server
Summary: How can BOOTP broadcasts be transmitted by a Novell server?
Keywords: bootp, ip
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:03:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.234034.20904@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> alastair@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (A R Anderson) writes:
>Subject: BOOTP through server
>From: alastair@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (A R Anderson)
>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:40:34 GMT
>Keywords: bootp, ip
>Summary: How can BOOTP broadcasts be transmitted by a Novell server?
>We have PCs that use telnet to communicate with central systems, with a
>Novell server (3.11) functioning as an IP router. In most respects, TCP/IP
>works correctly. However, one of the central systems is a BOOTP server and
>it does not receive BOOTP requests that are generated by the PCs. Does
>anyone have a way of making this part of TCP/IP work?
You need bootpfwd.nlm and an updated tcpip.nlm. Both these are packaged in a 
file called bootpfwd.zip available from netlab2.usu.edu in directory misc.

Brian Cassidy <BPC@UNB.CA>
Xref: sparky comp.sys.novell:12053 bit.listserv.novell:21329
From: berger@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Theresa Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,bit.listserv.novell
Subject: Need DAT backup recommendations
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:47:29 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.novell
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

I'm looking for information and recommendations for a DAT drive backup 
system (hardware and software) for my Novell networks.  I currently have 
nine file servers all running Netware 2.15C (budget problems have made 
upgrades problematical), with hard disks ranging in size from 80 MB to 
1.2 GB.  Since we're only likely to add more and bigger disks, I figure 
DAT is the way to go.  

As I'll be stuck with 2.15C at least at some sites even if we do get 
some $$ to upgrade, I'll need a workstation-based, as opposed to server-
based, system.  I'd also like it to include software that would let me 
easily schedule unattended backups.  

I've heard about Emeritus's Tapeware and know there's someone on the net 
from that company who'd have information about this, but I cleverly lost 
his e-mail info.  Any other pointers to products and vendors would be 
appreciated.  Thanks.  

Theresa Berger
Systems Programmer, Microcomputers and Networking
Rutgers University Computing Services, Newark Campus
berger@andromeda.rutgers.edu
From: daborton@va (David A. Borton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Questions!!!
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:47:32 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

bheagney@amiganet.chi.il.us (Brian Heagney) writes:
: 
: What or can someone explain to me where I might find information on NAME
: SERVICES, not name spacing!  I am taking 3.11 Advanced Sys MGR test...,
If I'm not mistaken, Name Services is a "4.0" kind of thing.  Watch for it
on your grocer's shelf soon.
--
Here am I sitting in a tin can...
From: mndot@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Software to monitor the traffic on ethernet ?
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:20:43 -0600
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <oddg.9@eiklh.no>, oddg@eiklh.no (Odd Gunnar Dalen) writes:
> Hello out there;
> I'm looking for some good software to monitor the traffic on our ethernet.
> Does there exist some SW or PD program ?
> 
> Does someone out there know about this abd where ?
> 
> Thanks in advance........
> 
-- 
If your familiar with the Clarkson driver set and have those drivers, there are
two pretty good applications which are share/freeware.  Use archie to locate
files named BEHOLDER and GOBBLER.  One is a network monitor the other is a
packet capture program.  Both work quite well, the BEHOLDER is TFTPable to
allow collection of stats from a remote workstation.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Alan R. Johnson                  Minnesota Department of Transportation
 Network Analyst                  308 Transportation Building
 +1 612 297 1289 Voice            St. Paul Mn, 55155
 +1 612 296 0975 Fax              mndot@msus1.msus.edu
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  The views expressed are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: donp@novell.com (don provan)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to turn off ipx routing on the server?
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, California
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:12:48 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.051248.5052@samba.oit.unc.edu> Steve.Bauer@launchpad.unc.edu (Steve Bauer) writes:
>I was wondering if it is possible to turn the ipx routing that a file
>server that has multiple nics will do?

No, i'm afraid it isn't. -don
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant)
Subject: Re: Toward a more persistent login.exe
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:41:19 GMT

In article <holbor.44.0@ccmail.orst.edu> holbor@ccmail.orst.edu (Richard Holbo) writes:
>This does not neccarily (sp) work, with older versions of Login.exe there
>are no errorlevel's set at all.  What I ended up doing was to check for the
>Existence of Sys:public\map.exe.  This will exist for Most everyone unless

Yes.  We, for example, are on a back-level version of LOGIN deliberately
be able to use zero-length user login scripts.  (Newer versions of LOGIN
treat them as missing login scripts, and do the default.)

I tried John Villalovos's suggestion, but still get "Batch file missing".
He suggested that this is because my login script was mapping F: to a
directory on a different volume, which is indeed the case.  But how can
this make a difference to DOS's batch file processor?
From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: my own suggestion: compress error logs...
Date: 26 Jan 93 20:45:15 GMT
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia

In article <1993Jan26.160719.29927@umr.edu> dwd@aurora.cc.umr.edu (Dan DeNise) writes:
>Daniel Seeman (dseeman@novell.com) wrote:
>> Actually we have a mechanism that allows you to turn those error messages off
>> (as far as AppleTalk is concerned).  At the server, you can LOAD ATCON -L and
>> you will get an extra menu labled LOGGING BITS.  In this section you can set
>> which messages get put into your error log.  You will have to make some 
>> decisions when using this feature as you will be losing an informational 
>> resource when you turn off the error messages.  But the feature is useful.
>> Give it a try.
>
>Is there a way to set these options from AUTOEXEC.NCF.  We log about 250Kb
>per month of 'ATALK Warning: rtmptimer - Net XXX went down' messages for
>AppleTalk subnets on another campus.  I'd love to never see these messages.
>
>Daniel W. DeNise <c0016@umrvmb.umr.edu>
>Computer Center, University of Missouri - Rolla

Hi,

Sorry, you will have to reset this each time you re-LOAD APPLETLK.NLM.  So,
if you restart the server, APPLETLK.NLM is re-loaded, and the original (default)
message "settings" are restored.  The solution here then is to keep the server
going after you have set the logging bit(s) from within ATCON.NLM.

Think Peace...

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.

These are my suggestions, not necessarily Novell's.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: david@ganglion.ann-arbor.mi.us (David Hwang)
Subject: Btrieve browser?
Reply-To: david@ganglion.ann-arbor.mi.us
Organization: D.J. Services
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:18:56 GMT

I have a IBM PC application that uses Btrieve as its record
manager to track stock quote prices, etc.  Is there any
application out there that will enable me to examine and/or
extract data from a .BTR file and import it into another
database format (i.e. dBase)?

Any suggestions welcomed.  E-Mail appreciated.

David Hwang

-- 
David W. Hwang, M.D.           //    University of Michigan Medical School
1050 Wall Street, Suite 10C   //           Telephone: 313/663-5557
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105    //    Internet: david@ganglion.ann-arbor.mi.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system
From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: RPRINTER with Windows 3.1?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:51:05 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: xanth.cs.orst.edu

In article <1993Jan23.030758.14902@ncar.ucar.edu> gary@colossus.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand) writes:
>I've gotten conflicting info...On 3.11, is anyone successfully using
>RPRINTER on a workstation running Windows 3.1?  I read that Windows
>interferes with remote printing, and that any station running Windows
>can use only a local printer or one connected directly to the fileserver.

I have had real difficulties in getting Windows to work with Rprinter when
Windows is running in 386 enhanced mode.  I played around with EMMExclude
and some other statements in the SYSTEM.INI file but ended up having
RPRINTER fail once you exited Windows.  It worked while in Windows but
something that Windows did on exit would cause Rprinter to stop working.  On
the stations that run Rprinter I ended up having them run in Standard mode.
If anyone has any sure fire methods of making Rprinter work with 386 enhanced
mode I would love to hear about them.

Later,
-- 
John Villalovos
Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
(503) 753-7883
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: THOMASG@epx.cis.umn.edu (Thomas D. Gasser)
Subject: Re: Arcserve "Losing" tape Drive
Organization: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:23:43 GMT


>Have a rather interesting problem.  Running an Everex 486/33 Cube EISA machine 
>as a 3.11 server.  Adaptec 1740 controller running 2 Seagate 94601-15 drives 
>(Devices #0 and #1) and a EXCEL DAT (this is the WANGDAT that is oemed from 
>WANGTEK)(Device #3).  

>On bootup controller card reports all three devices.  Loading tapedrv.nlm 
>works fine. It finds the tape drive reports the name of the tape in the drive. 
>After a while, (any where from 1 hour to 3 days) if you try to do a backup or 
>any ARCSERVE stuff to the tape drive it comes back with a ffff message from 
>the drive.  You can then unload Arcserve.nlm and the tapedrv.nlm fine but if 
>you try to reload the tapedrv.nlm it reports that the tape drive is not found.

>Any ideas in Net land?

In addition I am using the latest version from Cheyanne off the BBS.



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Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: b7r4@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (PATON  Mark A)
Subject: Printing, help needed
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:04:39 GMT


[I am posting this for a friend, so please reply via email to this 
address, and not to the newsgroup...tkx]

Help....

I have installed many Netware networks in the past couple of years
and with lots of time spend trouble shooting, have solved all the 
problems that have cropped up.  However, over that past week I upgraded
a Netware 2.15 AST 286 server by replacing it with a clone 386/33
running Netware 3.11.  The server has 2 parallel ports one connected to
a wide carriage dot matrix printer and the other to a laser printer.

The problem, that is driving me nuts, is when a user (anyuser) attempts to
print, it works, most of the time, maybe once in twenty attempts, the printers
print out strange results, such as starting underlining for no reason. I saw
one print job that was three pages long, two sentences from the middle of page 
two, were printed on a newly added blank page which was the first thing out
of the printer.

I have tried everything, swaping i/o card, the works....I am out of ideas...

Please help...

Rob

PS. Thanks.
From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Toward a more persistent login.exe
Date: 21 Jan 1993 05:17:10 GMT
Organization: Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: xanth.cs.orst.edu


In article <holbor.44.0@ccmail.orst.edu> holbor@ccmail.orst.edu (Richard Holbo) writes:
>>The way I do it at my work is set up a batch file called WSLOG.BAT which is
>>executed by the AUTOEXEC.BAT:
>>
>>WSLOG.BAT:
>>...
>>:LOOP
>>LOGIN
>>IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO LOOP
>>
>This does not neccarily (sp) work, with older versions of Login.exe there 
>are no errorlevel's set at all.  What I ended up doing was to check for the 
>Existence of Sys:public\map.exe.  This will exist for Most everyone unless 
>they arent members of Everyone or you have messed around a LOT with the 
>rights for the group Everyone. Anyway relavant part of batch file is:
>

I have only done this on NW 2.15 servers and up.  Those have all worked with
the login command returning error levels.  But if the person is using a
version lower then that then they might run into problems as you stated.  
I think they can get an updated set of utilities which should include
LOGIN.EXE if they are having a problem.

Later,
-- 
John Villalovos
Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
(503) 753-7883
From: mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (T. Jerry Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Can Novell support 75+ workstations?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 07:22:14 -0600
Organization: Educational Computing Network
NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu

In article <sholmste.7.0@novell.com> sholmste@novell.com (Shawn Holmstead) writes:
>In article <9301212346.AA06174@public.btr.com.BTR.COM> a9@public.btr.com (Ashar Nisar) writes:
>>Question: What is the MAXIMUM number of workstations that a  486 MSDOS 
>>server can handle and still give reasonable performance with Novell network?
>
>The maximum number of workstations that Novell currently sells is a 250 user
>using version 3.11.  The maximum for version 2.2 is 100 user.
>
>At BYU where I was a system manager we had one server (486 50 MHz with
>32 Meg of RAM) running a 250 user version of 3.11.  The server serviced
>about 125 student workstations and 75-100 professor workstations, and 
>never had any noticible speed problems.  The only speed problems we 
>encountered were cable related where the workstations were in a completely
>different building.  At peak times there might be a little slowing if
>everyone compiles at once, but that is not too likely.
>
Here at Western Illinois U, we have  about 20 servers all tied  together
with bridges, gateways, etc.  In all, there are over 600 PC's, a number
of Macs, a couple of Suns, and a 3090 class machine using the SNA
gateway.

It turns out that many servers have over 50 simultaneous connections.
Most of our servers are 386 DX machines, and most of the time they
are showing less than 25% load.  The problem for users is how many
bridges they must cross to get to the server they want.  A 10BaseT
workstation crossing 3 bridges to get to a server is really running
at ArcNet speed (2 mbps).  So the bridge planing is a real issue.
Of course, if you only have one server with 100 stations in one
big lab, there will be no bridges.  There, since 10BaseT will perform
more slowly under heavy load than Token Ring, the TR solution would
be better (but, of course, more expensive...).

=====================================================================
Thomas J. Scott  (aka Dr. J.)			Phone: 309-298-1452
Western Illinois University			mftjs@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: pkehoe@iunet.ann-arbor.mi.us (Patrick Kehoe)
Subject: Re: LWP and FTP to SGI Indigo problem
Organization: Innovative Concepts 
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:07:17 GMT

I got a patched version of tcpip.exe from novell tech support that fixes
this problem.  Seems that someone did an unsigned comparison when 
negotating packet sizes instead of a signed comparision.  SGI systems
try to use a packet size of 64k

Anyway, I hope that novell actually posts a real patch to the problem.

Pat

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell,comp.dcom.lans.misc
From: markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins)
Subject: Happy with Wangdat tape drive? Alternatives?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:47:18 GMT

A couple of clients are in serious need of tape drive upgrades;
one uses Novell and one Lantastic. A friend suggested Wangdat 4mm ...

Do you have a supporting view, or another opinion?

Thanks in advance for any insight.
-- 
Mark McWiggins        Hermes & Associates		+1 206 632 1905 (voice)
markmc@halcyon.com    Box 31356, Seattle WA 98103-1356  +1 206 632 1738 (fax)
From: cch0930@smarine.UUCP (Chris Hapgood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: NFS performance
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:00:38 GMT
Reply-To: cch0930@smarine.UUCP (Chris Hapgood)
Organization: Sperry Marine, Inc.

In article <keith.23.0@novell.com> keith@novell.com (Keith Brown) writes:
>In article <starkg.727953303@argon> starkg@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Gavin E Stark ) writes:
>>
>>I seem to be getting about 300K/s read performance between my RS6000 (AIX)
>>and my Novell 386 server.  Is this normal speed via NFS?
>
>> Also how do I know what #s to put into the "Tune NFS performance" option in 
>> NFSADMIN?
>
>For one client? Just leave them alone.
>
>Keith Brown                                        Phone: 408-473-8308
>Novell San Jose Development Center                   Fax: 408-473-8990
>2180 Fortune Drive, San Jose, CA 95131               Net: keith@sjf.novell.COM

I have found great performance improvements by changing some Netware/NFS
parameters: 
SET READ AFTER WRITE VERIFY = OFF (check docs, not safe for all cntrllrs.)
SET ENABLE IMMEDIATE PURGE OF DELETED FILES = ON (whatever this param is that
			doesn't put stuff in deleted.sav)
and the biggest improvement: enable asynchronus writes at the NFS config
screen.  This is also a very very very very slight corruption point, but if
you are on UPS, I wouldn't worry about it.  

BTW, to judge performance of NFS servers, check out the nhfsstone benchmark.
Very easy to use, very consistent results and good details in the output.

Get it on gatekeeper.dec.com somewhere.



-- 
Chris Hapgood		@Virginia.EDU:cch0930%lonely@smarine.uucp
3160 Summerfield Ct		...!uucp!virginia!smarine!medusa!lonely!cch0930
Charlottesville, VA  22901		cch6t@Virginia.EDU
H:(804) 973-2554 W:(804) 974-2584		^-- best
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: mark@gopher.dosli.govt.nz (Mark Wright)
Subject: Portable Netware for Ultrix? 
Organization: Dept. of Survey & Land Information, NZ.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:04:07 GMT

I'm looking for  an implementation of Portable Netware for Ultrix (running on
DecStations), does anyone know of such a beast?

Email me, and I'll summarize etc, etc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: drews@engr.wisc.edu (James Drews)
Subject: Burst Mode IPX
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:50:28 CST
Originator: drews@lite.engr.wisc.edu
Keywords: BURST


Quick question for all you out there.  We are considering useing BURST
mode IPX on our network and I had a few questions:

  1) what kind of performance increase can I expect?
  2) what problems have people had using the PBURST.NLM/BNETX?
  3) If I were to decide to use the burst mode, where/what do I need
     to do to get the NLM?

Thanks in advance
Jim

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James Drews                                            drews@engr.wisc.edu
Novell System Programmer                           or   drews@cae.wisc.edu
Computer Aided Engineering                 
University of Wisconsin - Madison                           (608) 265-3312
From: villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Re: Problem with SET STATION TIME
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:50:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1k6i1dINN196
Organization: Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: xanth.cs.orst.edu

In article <brueckm.5.728144720@uni-duesseldorf.de> brueckm@uni-duesseldorf.de (Martin Brueckers) writes:
>The shell normally synchronizes the workstation time with the file server's 
>time. The manual tells me to use the parameter SET STATION TIME=OFF, if I 
>like to save my workstation time, but it dosn't run. All other parameters in 
>this file are effective.

The SET STATION TIME=OFF parameter is for when NETX connects to a file server.
LOGIN.EXE on the other hand will set the time every time you log in unless you
get a copy of the new LOGIN.EXE which supports a parameter in the LOGIN script
to not set the station time.  You should be able to find the file on 
ftp.novell.com via ftp.  It will be called LOG*.ZIP.

Later,
-- 
John Villalovos
Certified Netware Engineer
villalj@xanth.cs.orst.edu
(503) 753-7883
From: gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
Subject: Pmail Question
Date: 22 Jan 93 03:35:12 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


I have been administring Pmail for a while, but I ran into an interesting
problem today.  One of the users can not keep his account from keeping
a "copy self".

I have been using pmail for a while, so please don't respond with :
"check the headers (F9)", or "check preferences/general/copy self
settings".  I have done both.

The headers are set to "n", and the copyself setting is to folder:
"COPYSELF", with N checked in the "always ask" option.  

When you change the "always ask" option to Y, and then tell pmail
not to keep a copy of the sent message, it will NOT keep a copy.  This is
the only way we have found to prevent it.


Any ideas?

Please email all responses.


Dave
-- 
gt4719b@prism.gatech.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell
From: dsantos@hprnd.rose.hp.com (David Santos)
Subject: Driver Stats
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:54:27 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.3 PL7]

What is the interrupt/register layout for obtaining a DOS ODI LAN drivers
statistics?  Note that NETX will not be loaded; only LSL, <driver>, and
IPXODI will be loaded.  i.e. on the PC my program is running on, I would like
to obtain the drivers stats before an attach or after a failed attach.

Thanks in advance,

Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell