networking newbie

From: Julian Richardson <JRichardson_at_softwright.co.uk>
Date: Tue Dec 1 03:27:10 1998

>> A friend of mine at a large company (whose initials are International
>> Business Machine, but you didn't hear that from me 8-) had to route traffic
>> between Token Ring and Ethernet. NT didn't work (no surprise there),

Hmm, I had exactly the same trouble. Worked fine on a linux machine
routing between our company token ring and a couple of SGI Origin
servers on 100 meg ethernet, but NT wasn't having any of it.
Unfortunately I seem to be the only person here who has any real Unix
skills, so Linux was out of the question for the router. I ended up
writing a Java application to relay socket connections on the NT machine
that sat between the ethernet and token ring, so at least HTTP and
Telnet would work - FTP had to be done as a two-stage process...

cheers

Jules

>(sorry for OT)
Received on Tue Dec 01 1998 - 03:27:10 GMT