From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
Subject: Re: Remote modem access to Novell
Summary: Modem pool for connectivity
Keywords: NACS, NAS, modem connectivity
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:38:20 GMT

dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy) writes:
>From: dweissman@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (WiseGuy)
>Subject: Re: Remote modem access to Novell
>Summary: Modem pool for connectivity
>Keywords: NACS, NAS, modem connectivity
>Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. USA
>Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 12:27:00 GMT
>Lines: 15
>In article <dbehr.67.725791517@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za>, dbehr@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za (Danie Behr) writes...
>%Currently we are investigating the provision of async access for students
>%at our university to a number of Novell File Servers.  We have looked at the
>%Novell NACS package.
>
>May I suggest you look at the Telebit NetBlazer?  It support remote Novell
>access, remote AppleTalk access and remote IP access through the same box.
>They can be reached at 1-800-TELEBIT

I'm using a dialup PPP connection to several NetWare servers and the
Internet via a NetBlazer in our LAB as I type...  I have no complaints
about it's performance whatsoever.

I also believe my application of the NetBlazer may be what Danie is
looking for.

At my home, LAN WorkPlace for DOS v4.1 provides PPP and TCP/IP support
along with IPTUNNEL (a client ODI driver implementation of RFC-1234),
which supports IPXODI and the NetWare shell.  This allows IPX
connections over UDP/IP to a NetWare v3.11 server in San Jose, which
then routes the IPX packets to the Novell IPX internet using whatever
frame format is needed.

The modem connection is made between a Telebit T3000 (on the
NetBlazer) and my Intel SatisFAXtion Modem/400e at home using a
V.32bis/V.42bis (14,400bps with error handling and compression)
connection.  DOS file copies using the latest burst-more shell are
coming in at about 1.3KB/second from a remote server to a local disk.

This provides acceptable performance for NetWare server administration
(SYSCON, RCONSOLE, etc... best loaded from local disks, of course) and
light server data file access, as well as any number of simultaneous
TCP/IP-based applications sharing a single modem line.

It's also nice for applications that make both TCP/IP and NetWare
calls, such as Trumpet.  Trumpet for example, likes to store a user's
news.ini file in their email directory on their default NetWare
server.  By logging into the same default NetWare server from home or
office, Trumpet can track news group status consistently regardless of
the location of the workstation I'm using.

However, if your application requires access to large server-based
data files...  you would be better off running the application
remotely on a machine that is physically located on the LAN where the
data is located (Be it running DOS, NAS, DV/X or UnixWare).  Of
course, the PPP link could then provide the connection to that DOS
machine process.  Form home, I often Telnet to my DOS machine at work
(since no one else uses it while I'm at home or away), and run certain
DOS applications.

-- brian
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Brian Meek                      Novell, Inc. -- Desktop Systems Group
                                Internet mail:  brian@Novell.COM