| I assume this stream of entries makes the following statement:
On a GS/IP, you can have specific ports running IP, and other ports
running ELAN.
I have many buildings of users (each building has a differnt IP
address) each currently fed by a DECNIS port, to a DEChub 90. The
building's address comes from the DECNIS for each protocol I am
running: DECnet, Novell IPX 802.3, and TCP/IP.
With today's product availability, I cannot think of a way to migrate
each user to 10meg switched (VN900EE), linked to the central site via
ATM at a Gigaswitch/ATM, and continue to supoprt IPX, DECnet and IP on
eac user desk.
The users connect to Novell information servers and printers for office
automation, NT servers for other things, and IP for the web. If I
attach a LANE port, AND an ATM /IP port to a DEChub Ethernet, I assume that the spanning
tree will shut one of the ports down.
Surely someone else has nodes that run both IP and IPX? How does
this work?
Thanks for any help.
John D> Reed
Networking the Carolina
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| Hi John,
Support for IP Switching & LANE on the same physical port of the
Gigaswitch/IP is planned; if you're making a proposal to a customer that
requires this solution, please contact the Gigaswitch/IP product manager
to see how close we are to field-testing this... If you have difficulty
locating the right person, send me E-mail & I can help track it down for
you... I don't know where the DECnis is on support for this.
An alternate solution you may want to consider (but again, I can't
speak to the DECnis' or VNswitch's ability to support this; perhaps
someone else can help) is run an rfc1483 PVC for IP from the ATM
device into the IP switch controller for IP access, and LANE for other
bridged protocols. The Gigaswitch/IP controller does support rfc1483
PVC connections to link into an IP-switched environment from non-IP
switching ATM endpoints...
Regards,
-Chuck O. (Back in MCS/IPS)...
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