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In article <4bdud0$1cu@galileo.polito.it>, badella@centauro.polito.it (enrico badella) says:
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>Hello,
>
>I would like your advice on the solution I thought for this connectivity problem
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>There is a TCP/IP + LanManager U lan with a HP 9000/8xx server that needs to
>be connected to a remote Novell IPX Lan. The connection MUST use a private
>X.25 network to connect the two lans. The traffic between the lans will probably
>be mail (SMTP), ftp and maybe WWW.
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>My idea is to use  2 Cisco 2503 (not sure of the model) and connecting the two
>lans to the X.25 provider with ISDN since traffic won't be very heavy. Install
>a Linux box on the Novell lan and add TCP/IP to all the MS-Windows clients.
>The LInux box would become a TCP/IP server; in this way there shouldn't be
>problems with the current installation.
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>Someone suggested to install TCP/IP on the Novell server; I wouldn't want to
>do so since Novell will be dismissed in the future
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>Any other ideas.
>
>Please let me ask you for CC: your replies to my email address 
>eb@vax.cnuce.cnr.it since news article at my site expire after just 2 days
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>Thanks in advance
>
>Merry Christmas
>
>eb
>
have you considerd NT on a meduim sized server, microsoft provide some excellent gateway 
products & NT will handle TCP/IP as default - it could be considerably cheaper.
NT3.51 IS a mature product now and I have very few problems with it