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                                                        The Florida SunFlash
       Concurrent Access To Both A PC-NFS and NetWare LAN
   
SunFLASH Vol 32 #6					         August 1991 
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This is a reference to a third party product from a private email
message. As you would expect, this description does not imply an
endorsement by Sun. -johnj
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There is now a product available to provide PCs with concurrent access
to both a PC-NFS and NetWare LAN.  Spry Concurrent, developed by Spry
Inc., provides an NDIS driver for NetWare; PC-NFS 3.5 ships an NDIS
driver.  This product eliminates the need to reboot to access different
LANs, and does not require a "smart" ethernet adapter, which can be
costly.  Both UDP/TCP (PC-NFS) and IPX (NetWare) can coexist on the
same ethernet adapter board using the NDIS driver supplied by the
manufacturer of the board.

The introduction of PC-NFS 3.5 stated that the NDIS driver is delivered
to provide compatibility with most available ethernet cards, NOT to
provide dual protocol coexistance.  In fact, the dual protocol
coexistance is not marketed by Sun and Sun does not formally provide
software support for it, but the necessary NDIS executables are
included.

Below is the product and ordering information for Spry Concurrent.

PUBLISHED PRODUCT PRICING:		FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
	
	Quantity	Pricing		Kevin Britt		
	--------	-------		Product Manager
	1-9		$149		Spry, Inc.
	10-49		$95		1319 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 150
	50-99		$75		Seattle, WA 98109
	100-249		$60		
	250-499		$45		Tel: 206-286-1412
	500-999		$35		Fax: 206-286-1722
	1000+		$25

	Pricing includes software support for 
	PC-NFS installation of Spry Concurrent.

NOTES: 

      *	PC-NFS 3.5a, which includes a patches for NDIS.SYS and NET.EXE
	is required for compatibility with Spry Concurrent.  The
	NDIS.SYS patch corrects a problem with loading PC-NFS and
	NetWare simultaneously, and the NET.EXE patch corrects a
	problem with the NET PRINT command.  These patch are available
	from CTE (Patch number xxxx).


TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS:

      * Having both stacks (IPX and TCP/UDP) loaded in PC memory
	simultaneously will decrease the amount of standard DOS memory
	available (in the 640K limit).  Also, performance will be
	effected.

      *	PC-NFS must be started and all drives and printers mounted
	AFTER the Spry IPX has been loaded and NETBIND run but BEFORE
	the Novell NET3/NET4 shell is started.

      *	Netware can use ONLY drives W, X Y and Z; it is not possible to
	change the LASTDRIVE to affect this. LASTDRIVE=V is
	mandatory.

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