Shiva LanRover VPN - IPX support

Kruse, Darren darren.kruse at EDS.COM
Thu Jan 20 19:59:55 EST 2000


There is NO support for IPX/SPX in the current release of the Shiva Lanrover
,nor is there likely to be IMHO.

I have told our sales people that if they want to sell the VPN solution to
people who want to access Netware resources then there are two options /
workarounds  :

1. (Preferred) upgrade to Netware 5.0 and don't run IPX.

2. (Ugly - but it works ) - the VPN client talks IP to a NT box inside the
trusted network. The NT box then in turn runs Gateway services for Netware -
this is included for free in the OS.  Basically, the NT server by talking
IPX to the Netware box inside the trusted network is acting as a proxy for
the client.

With this I think the NT server needs to be logged into the Netware server
with administrator rights - I'm not a NT guru so I may be wrong on this.

This will allow remote VPN clients to map drives and print to the the
netware printer using IP and using the NT box as a proxy. 

regards,
Darren Kruse 
Advanced Communications Engineer
EDS (Australia)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at haht.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 11:38 PM
> To: VPN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
> Subject: Re: Shiva LanRover VPN
> 
> 
<<snip >>
> 
> I imagine that the Lan Rover works with other protocols and 
> not just TCP/IP.
> Most likely it also works with IPX (Novell protocol).  That 
> being the case,
> it is possible that you may be using strictly IPX on your LAN 
> and not be
> using TCP/IP at all.  This is the only case that I can see in 
> which you
> would want to "turn off the Client IP check box".
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Jon Carnes
> MIS - HAHT Software

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