Novell clients/Unix Sybase Server

[Tony Byorick]

Our shop is running a distributed application using Novell
IPX clients connecting to the NLM version of Sybase SQL Server.
This version of the server can listen on both IPX and IP
protocols. We want to convert our database server to run
on a Unix platform instead the Novell NLM server. However,
the Unix version of Sybase apparently does not currently
listen on anything but the IP protocol. Loading IP onto the
workstations is not an option for us. Has anyone out there
run into this situation? and, if so, how did they get
around it?

Tony Byorick
MNC Financial
Baltimore, Md.

[BDCC Ltd]

Yes, you can use SPX/IPX on all the clients and gateway via a Netware
server (that is running TCP/IP) this make it look to the server that it
is talking to clients with TCP/IP, but there is no new software for the
client! We used NOVIX by Firefox. Works well, also allows us to use
Winsock API compilent apps even though none of our PCs actually runs
TCP/IP!

If you are using ODBC there are now ODBC drivers for Unix. I'm looking at
this now, but it is early days.

[Jameison Martin]

Some Unix versions of the 10.0 SQL Server support SPX
listeners. I'm not exactly sure which ones, but I think
that Solaris and HP-UX SQL Servers support SPX.
Check with your rep.

Thanks,
Jamie

[Paul Gillingwater]

BDCC Ltd (se...@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
: Yes, you can use SPX/IPX on all the clients and gateway via a Netware

: server (that is running TCP/IP) this make it look to the server that it
: is talking to clients with TCP/IP, but there is no new software for the

Sun told us that they will soon be releasing an SPX/IPX stack for
Solaris, and they claim that this will allow Novell Sybase clients to
talk directly to SQL Server. I'm not so sure.
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