RE: Communications/Token Ring/Ethernet/TCP/IP Question... ;-)

Chuck Lewis wrote:

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We are NOW ready to start bringing on the ethernet sites. We have set up
a Multiple Protocol Router that can handle token ring and ethernet and
have been TRYING to get Client Access to work. We can get an ethernet
machine to hit the AS/400 and create the APPC controller. We fire up
PC5250 and it creates those devices. You can sign on and send a message or 
something and then the PC locks up HARD (only way out is to turn it off and 
back on.

We are running IPX on the LANS (16mbs T/R and 802.3 ethernet).  We have brought 
in a communications consultant, who is VERY good and VERY knowledgeable, to try 
to figure out if we are doing something wrong. He said that the MPR was setup 
(OK. He said that what we are trying to do is outdated (still using IPX, the 
DXMA and DXMC drivers, Windows 3.11,
etc.) and that his others accounts are using TCP/IP, Windows 95, etc.

My REAL question - is ANYONE doing what we are TRYING to do ? We WILL NOT use 
Windows 95 (we are planning on migrating to NT...). Are we the ONLY ones 
attempting anything like this ?

CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET
Indianapolis, IN

Dear Chuck,

Back before Windows 95, when Windows 3.11 was Microsoft's newest operating 
system, a few nice people posted their PC's configurations that allowed Novell 
and PC/Support (forerunner of Client Access) to work together in harmony. 

>From information posted to midrange-l at that time, it seems that if the 
>Novell drivers (ODI perhaps?) for the Ethernet card and the IBM drivers for 
>Client Access are not loaded in a certain sequence during the boot-up of the 
>PC; when you start Client Access you get the complete lockup you are 
>experiencing.

I will check the LAN directory where we keep the information about Client 
Access and Novell setup information to see if we have any information that 
might be helpful for you tomorrow. If not, hopefully one of the original 
posters may be able to send you some information that will be helpful for your 
current situation.

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019 

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