--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAQ00000 Date: 06/19/97 From: HARALD HOUPPERMANS Time: 03:21am \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: IPX W95<->DOS Hi All,... I have a 486 DX 33 and a Pentium 166. Both have a network card. On the 486... I load : { 8 bit card } 1 lsl 2 ne1000 3 ipxodi { Pentium } 1 lsl 2 pnpodi 3 ipxodi I was wondering If it would be possible to Control the 486 from my pentium in Windows 95. My pentium has to be the Server. But in Windows 95 I can only make a Client, right ? How can I make a Server in Dos or Windows ? What software do you need exactly ? I have NETX.EXE 3.xx for my 486... Hope somebody can helpme... -=> Yours sincerely, Harald Houppermans <=- --- Terminate 4.00 * Origin: You know when you have been Terminated... (2:283/502.9) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAQ00001 Date: 06/17/97 From: CHUMA AGBODIKE Time: 09:52pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: File and application server What is the difference if any between an application server and a file rver? Seems like there is a server for everything. Name, database, communication, NFS, and on and on. Chuma Internet Email address: chuma@pacbell.net --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: Third World, Sunland, Ca. (818) 951-9603 (1:102/803) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAQ00002 Date: 06/19/97 From: CHUMA AGBODIKE Time: 02:26pm \/To: ALL (Read 6 times) Subj: Subnetting Given an IP address 198.92.58.135 what is the subnet address ? Kindly explain how you determine it. This is an attempt to understand NETMASK and SUBNETMASK Chuma Internet Email address: chuma@pacbell.net --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: Third World, Sunland, Ca. (818) 951-9603 (1:102/803) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAQ00003 Date: 06/19/97 From: CHUMA AGBODIKE Time: 03:59pm \/To: MIKE BILOW (Read 6 times) Subj: ms-dos, tcp/ip On Jun 11 07:37, 1997, Mike Bilow of 1:323/107 wrote: MB> Wes Newell wrote in a message to Juha-Matti Tapio: WN>> We used addresses 255.255.255.x. Where x identifies each WN>> machine. Used 0 for the router. MB> This is a really bad idea, since the convention on IP is that an address MB> where the network portion has all bits set is the broadcast network, or all MB> networks. MB> If you need a private network, use 192.168.x.x as recommended by RFC1597. Talking about private networks, what are the network addresses recommended for each class ? A , B, C. ??? I saw them somewhere but can't remember. Chuma Internet Email address: chuma@pacbell.net --- Msged 4.00 * Origin: Third World, Sunland, Ca. (818) 951-9603 (1:102/803) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00000 Date: 06/21/97 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 03:03am \/To: ANDREW SEEGER (Read 6 times) Subj: Peer-Peer Network Suggestions. Andrew Seeger wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: AS> Thanks for that, i have now got OS/2 and Win95 talking. On the AS> Win 95 machine, i can see all of the drives on the OS/2 AS> machine, but the OS/2 machine cannot see anything on the AS> Win95.... :-( Make sure your workgroups names and such are truly synchronized, even with regard to case. AS> Dare i ask what Samba it? :-) It is a freeware Unix package which allows running CIFS (SMB/NetBIOS) over TCP/IP. A Unix machine running Samba can emulate an NT Server, for example. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00001 Date: 06/21/97 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 03:10am \/To: MICHAEL HAUNZWICKL (Read 6 times) Subj: NFS for UNIX / NT Michael Haunzwickl wrote in a message to All: MH> I'm in the need of an cheap (or free) tool for using NFS on an MH> RS/6000 IBM AIX Server with WIN NT Clients. (So maybe I just MH> need the client programs). Does anybody know one, or could tell MH> me where to get? Why are you absolutely committed to NFS? The freeware Samba package is available for AIX, and this would allow you to use the standard NT client. See "http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html" for information. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00002 Date: 06/21/97 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 03:12am \/To: BRIAN NIEGOCKI (Read 6 times) Subj: workings of a T-1/3 and an ISP... Brian Niegocki wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: BN> So it hooks up something along these lines: BN> T1/T3 <---> CSU/DSU <---> ROUTER <--------> TERMINAL SERVER BN> ^ BN> | BN> | BN> NEWS SERVER, MAIL, DNS SERVER Yes, except that a terminal server usually communicates with the router over the same Ethernet LAN as the other local servers. MB> Are you trying to start your own ISP? :-) BN> We're debating the issue :) The service providers in our BN> area have greatly pissed us off when we went looking for a BN> basic PPP service. It seems not one of them knows what BN> they're doing correctly. :) I myself get free access from BN> my college, but my friend has a provider who doesn't cut it BN> :) When I tried to find one for my grandfather, I came up BN> with very poor choices. BN> We're not thinking MONSTER scale at first, but enough to at BN> least sustain ourselves :) You could look at some of the national providers, such as ATT Worldnet, Netcom, or PSINet. I see that you are posting from "Long Island, NY," but I don't know how far away from the city you are. I know that TIAC ("http://www.tiac.net") has a POP in NYC and covers out into Nassau county, but this may not do you any good if you are in, say, Montauk. TIAC is one of the better providers in the New England/New York area, offering a number of useful options -- such as a static IP address if you ask for it -- which the national providers will not give you. My advice to you is that it would be a heck of a mistake to start an ISP business while you are trying to learn how to run a network by reading a book. I have seen operations of this kind, and they're not pretty. MB> BN> = A NEWGROUP SERVER MB> BN> = AN EMAIL SERVER MB> BN> = PPP SERVER MB> BN> = WEB SERVER MB> MB> DNS, news, mail, and web servers are usually programs run on regular MB> computers. A PPP server program is usually run inside the terminal rver BN> Are these usually part of a LINUX software package or are BN> they commercial packages or what? Nearly all of this -- innd for news, sendmail for mail, pppd for ppp -- comes in any good Linux distribution. The preferred freeware web server on Linux is probably Apache, although there are others. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00003 Date: 06/21/97 From: MIKE BILOW Time: 03:20am \/To: GREG MACLELLAN (Read 6 times) Subj: collisions? Greg MacLellan wrote in a message to All: GM> what are these 'collisions' on coax cable? too many systems GM> hooked up on one wire..? Systems that try to talk at the same time. Although the signal moves at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, it can happen that two machine start talking almost simultaneously and do not detect each other. This causes the data sent by both machine to be lost, so that it might need to be retried. Collisions result from the wire being used heavily with more than two machines present. Although more machines are likely to raise the amount of overall traffic on the wire, there is no necessary correlation between the number of machines and the frequency of collisions. -- Mike --- * Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00004 Date: 06/21/97 From: RUNE JOHANSEN Time: 12:10am \/To: GREG MACLELLAN (Read 6 times) Subj: collisions? > what are these 'collisions' on coax cable? too many systems hooked up on ne > wire..? If the collisions are excessive, that could be the answer, yes. But, using a coax cable, makes me believe that you use ethernet, and that uses CSMA/CD technology. It's short for Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detect. When a station on the net wants to send a packet, he listens for traffic. If he can't hear traffic, he sends, and listens to see if the packet crashed with another or not. If not, that's OK. If crashed, wait for a random time, and try again. The more chatty NICs you have, the larger probability you have for llisions. --- BBBS/2 v3.33 How-D * Origin: BarCode BBS - now with ISDN at 47-67061044 (2:210/20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 193 LAN Ref: EAR00005 Date: 06/21/97 From: RUNE JOHANSEN Time: 10:15am \/To: CHUMA AGBODIKE (Read 6 times) Subj: Subnetting > Given an IP address 198.92.58.135 what is the subnet address ? It's not possible to determine the subnet of any given IP address, unless you know the netmask. If you take the presumtion that the netmask in your case is 255.255.255.0, the subnet address can be determined by AND'ing the bits in the octets: 11000000.01011100.00111010.10000111 = 198.92.58.135 11111111.11111111.11111111.00000000 = 255.255.255.0 AND = 11000000.01011100.00111010.00000000 = 198.92.58.0 --- BBBS/2 v3.33 How-D * Origin: BarCode BBS - now with ISDN at 47-67061044 (2:210/20)