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by chris.riley 1 view

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We have a WAN consisting of 5 NetWare 4.11 servers. We have just been told that one of our buildings is going to have its network upgraded which means that IPX traffic will not be allowed to propagate across the WAN. They have said that we either have to upgrade to NetWare 5 or enable NWIP forwarding to enable IP communication. As our plan of rolling out NW5 will take some time to complete the second option is more realistic.

How do I go about enabling NWIP forwarding and what impact will this have on our network/server? Will we need to make any changes on the client workstations??

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by olean26

Well - to answer your last question first - No changes on the client workstations will be required. Enabling NWIP on that server will increase the traffic in the building somewhat but hopefully the upgraded equipment will take care of that. Some additional overhead on the server and utilizetion will increase - make sure you've got enough memory...

As far as installation - http://www.novell.com/documentation/

Check it out.

Good Luck.

by lelton

I might have my terminology messed up but I believe that Netware 4 can "Tunnel" ipx/spx through a tcp/ip connection (the internet) to your other Netware 4 servers. This would require setting up both lans with internet connectivity, I would recommend possiblely a good cheap broadband sollution (cable/dsl), and some type of vpn software ontop of that.

I believe this would be your cheapest solution. You also might be able to restrict the ixp rips so they don't go over your tcp/ip tunnel unlessyou really need them.

I am sure you could also setup direct ipx connection from server to server using isdn, but that gets a little more pricey (but much easier to configure).

Have fun.
Les

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