It had support for ethernet too: 10 Mb/s media only IIRC.
DECnet got started and replaced the physical address of the NIC with the AA-00-04-00-xx-xx
DECnet address
The user had no control over the latter. That was introduced later when Windows 2000 was
released.
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From: Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 20:13:19
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] NetWare and DECnet
On 4 Jan 2013, at 20:10, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:
IIRC DECnet for Netware was a separately sold item of the Pathworks product suite. It was
DECnet for pc's running Netware, as basic Pathworks was DECnet for PC-DOS and MS-DOS
pc's or DECnet for the Macintosh.
It brought DECnet connectivity to PC's running Netware; it had support for 4 and 16
Mb/s tokenring adapters. Tokenring puts bits in a different order on the wire so AA-00
addresses became 55-00 addresses.
Hans
Ahhh. Did it support non-tokenring as well? Was it a loadable module a user could define
manually as a binding on the NIC?
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Onderwerp: [HECnet] NetWare and DECnet
Verzonden: 5 januari 2013 01:49
Hi!
As I've already gotten a bunch of my NT systems on HECnet, I thought i'd try a new
beast: old NetWare.
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