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I, like a lot of people, am working on connecting a Novell network to the 
Internet.  I've read through posts here on the same subjects, so I'll try 
not to duplicate.  (I'm going to try to find the "Connecting Netware to 
the Internet" book.)

My current situation is a ~25 user Netware 3.11 network, running over 
ARCnet (not ethernet).  The network is also bridged (standard Netware 
bridge) to a very small ethernet network on a Netware 2.15 server.  
There's also a very separate Windows for Workgroups network on the floor 
running on ethernet.

We'd like to connect the Netware 3.11 server (running ARCnet) to the 
Internet, and provide for the possibility of further serving Internet to 
the other networks on the floor.  We're looking for two-way 
connectivity... i.e., incoming mail, outgoing mail, WWW/ftp client and 
server support, and outgoing telnet.  A few random questions:

* Is it possible to run TCP/IP protocol over ARCnet hardware?  Through 
protocol layering, it should be theoretically possible, but has it been 
done in practice?  (I'd like clients on the ARCnet network to be able to 
do stuff like, Netscape and telnet, etc.)

* The connection will initially be very low use... probably dedicated 
28.8k modem connection.  Is something like that sufficient for running a 
WWW server on "our" side of the link?  Seems that'd be real slow for 
people connecting to our WWW site.

* PC/Anywhere, etc.  Is it possible to run PC/Anywhere over an Internet 
connection?  I.e., we have a host on the network for dial-in remote 
control sessions.  If the person dialing in has an Internet connection, 
can that be done over the Internet?

* We run internal e-mail using Netware's standard mail support and 
Pegasus.  What does it take to bridge the incoming/outgoing e-mail into 
Netware's system?

* Can all of this be done internally on Netware 3.11?  Or do we need a 
Unix box to handle gatewaying/routing/e-mail/etc.?

Any help/suggestions appreciated!

-Rick

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