NetWare ( IPX/SPX) for Vista?

[Dixon H Harris, MCSE]

NetWare is running on XP Pro SP2 desktops in my LAN.

Since Netware is no longer in the built-in pack of protocols in Vista, where
can I get it to install it in my new Vista machine?

Thanks

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[On the Bridge]

hello.. yes I know of this issue.. but why do you have that old protocol?

Im just asking out of curiosity

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[Chris S.]

NetWare is running on XP Pro SP2 desktops in my LAN.

Since Netware is no longer in the built-in pack of protocols in Vista,
where
can I get it to install it in my new Vista machine?

Thanks

( If responding please also include my email addy: (e-mail address removed) )

http://www.novell.com/products/clients/

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "On the Bridge" <[email protected]>

| hello.. yes I know of this issue.. but why do you have that old protocol?
|
| Im just asking out of curiosity
|

How about security ?
I see numerous Vulnerability Assesments. Many concern TCP/IP. Not just microsoft's version
but TCP/IP in general. Very, very, few vulnerabilities have been found in IPX/SPX.

Also IPX/SPX is tunable and faster that IP.

 

[the wharf rat]

I see numerous Vulnerability Assesments. Many concern TCP/IP. Not just
microsoft's version
but TCP/IP in general. Very, very, few vulnerabilities have been found
in IPX/SPX.

That's a logical error. A) IP is much more widely deployed than
IPX and B) IPX is a LAN protocol and simply less exposed. I don't see
that there's anything that makes it more secure. It's in fact very similar
to IP.

Also IPX/SPX is tunable and faster that IP.

Tunable? How so? It's faster than IP on a LAN because it has
less overhead, but useless in a WAN situation. (Yes it's routeable but
it doesn't scale. How do you link 300 IPX networks with a few hundred hosts
each?)

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "the wharf rat" <[email protected]>

| That's a logical error. A) IP is much more widely deployed than
| IPX and B) IPX is a LAN protocol and simply less exposed. I don't see
| that there's anything that makes it more secure. It's in fact very similar
| to IP.
|

It is more secure because a PC on the LAN side is not susceptible to TCP/IP exploitations.

|
| Tunable? How so? It's faster than IP on a LAN because it has
| less overhead, but useless in a WAN situation. (Yes it's routeable but
| it doesn't scale. How do you link 300 IPX networks with a few hundred hosts
| each?)

With a Router that's IPX/SPx compliant and good, managble, Ethernet Switches.

I won't say its perfect but it was doable. Petrsonally I haven't done Netware and IPX/SPX
in 18 years.

For all we know, the OP wants IPX/SPX for a game that uses this protocol.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

NetWare is running on XP Pro SP2 desktops in my LAN.

Since Netware is no longer in the built-in pack of protocols in Vista, where
can I get it to install it in my new Vista machine?

Thanks

( If responding please also include my email addy: (e-mail address removed) )

Have you considered looking on Novell's web site? NetWare is, after
all, a Novell product, and IPX/SPX is a Novell protocol.


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[the wharf rat]

With a Router that's IPX/SPx compliant and good, managble, Ethernet Switches.

And RIP? Ha, ha

 

[the wharf rat]

Have you considered looking on Novell's web site? NetWare is, after
all, a Novell product, and IPX/SPX is a Novell protocol.

The Novell client for Vista is in beta and doesn't work. MS won't
support Vista and blames Novell. Here's a kludge that's reputed to allow
you to use the XP IPX stack on Vista:

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1200750&SiteID=17

 

[On the Bridge]

in that thread they say further down that it installs but doesnt work

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "the wharf rat" <[email protected]>

| And RIP? Ha, ha

Yeah, I got RIPped off