Re: DHCP Server and Novell

["Michael J. Lewis" <[e-mail]>]

Lynn Grader wrote:
> 
> 
> I guess I'm prejudiced since I do tech support for ON Technology, so I'll
> keep it brief and try not to sound like a salesperson:
> 
> Novell told us that NetWare/IP runs only on 4.x servers. Also, we were
> told that Novell allows for only 1 subnet range and supports only FTP and
> NetWare IP stacks.
> It's OK to be prejudiced.  :)

You are correct that NetWare/IP 2.2 runs only on 4.x servers.  The DHCP 
server is bundled with NetWare/IP 2.2 but can be run as a standalone 
product and as such does work on NetWare 3.x.  As I said, I'm not sure 
of the licensing ramifications but technically the product does work.

The Novell server supports multiple subnets but only one range per 
subnet.  This can be circumvented by utilizing the manual address 
feature.  Novell's configuration utility does support setting the 
NetBIOS Name Server and NetBIOS Node Type options which are helpful in a 
Microsoft networking TCP/IP environment.  Novell also allows setting the 
T1/T2 times and includes the NetWare/IP parameters as well.  

I can vouch that the server will support Microsoft Windows 95/NT/WFW
DHCP clients.  There is an inconsistency with manual addressing as 
Novell returns an infinite lease with finite T1/T2 times which 
Microsoft's clients ignore.  Other than that, and the aforementioned 
mobile client difficulty, we've detected no other problems.