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From: Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: OS/2-NetWare Users List: IP vs IPX (was: Re: Netware IP)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:27:54 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
To: os2-netware_users@2rosenthals.com

Actually, I don't think our opinions differ. I was merely pointing up one example where Novell has advised using IPX as a preferred protocol over IP. Having attended several of Laura Chappel's sessions, she has talked often about the increased security of running only IPX on the server (and, indeed, under versions of NetWare prior to 5.0 this was much easier to accomplish).

Several years ago, the thought of running multiple protocol stacks on one board (though supported by NetWare for quite some time) was thought to be a fool's endeavor. Luckily, hardware (and networking bandwidth!) has made that mode of thinkiing somewhat dated. :-)

Vaughn Bender wrote:

HI

At the moment I would beg to differ to a certain degree
see below your comments

 

I've seen them advise it to resolve slow login issues under NT, as well as other things. NW6 is the first version I've seen to actually get Btrieve performance under IP to surpass IPX (after quite a bit of tuning, believe me!).
   


Well...actually Novell told me this:...

You see, IPX performs better than IP in an all-NetWare environment, by a significant amount. Provided you aren't running any IP-based services on a NetWare server (such as an Apache Web Server, for example), there's little reason to employ IP as a server protocol, and a number of reasons not to.
 


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