Dave Stagner wrote:
> Can plug-gw or some other wrapper program be used to pass IPX traffic
> through a firewall? We have users who want to access their Novell
> network from the outside, and the option is either let them have a
> modem inside (insecure), or send them through the firewall, which is
> TCP-based. I suppose they could run Netware sessions over TCP
> somehow, but I know very little about Novell myself (lucky me, I'm
> paid to write unix software!), so I don't know about configuring such
> a beast, or even if it's possible.
Have you considered Netware Connect? It's modem-based, so "insecure" in that
fashion, but it does at least have user-level security. And because it's
configured at the server, you would be able to retain control over the modems
and over the server's security procedures: you wouldn't have to give each user
a modem, load pcAnywhere and then hope for the best, at any rate.
I believe the new version of Netware connect supports a Windows-based client,
standard PPP, and perhaps either PAP or CHAP security. I haven't actually used
it much myself, preferring to steer clear of Netware whenever I have the
chance, but Microsoft's version (RAS) is pretty slick. (RAS *does* support
IPX, by the way.)
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