VPN on Novell Netware 4.11

[dbrew0]

Hi all,

Is there any way to access our Novell Netware 4.11 server from off-site via VPN? I know BorderManager won't support this version of netware.

We have a broadband connection with a BEFSR41 router/firewall. The outside computers will be Win xp pro and Win 98SE.

Any help/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[JRMS]

Has anyone found a solution to this issue. I am in the same situation. Thanks

 

[lgarner]

Your problem is that you need to tunnel IPX, and it sounds like your using a client-site VPN. Routers can do this, but I don't know of VPN client software that can.

You could set up NetWare/IP. I experimented with it quite some time ago and it worked ok. At least then you would only need an IP connection to the server.

 

[Clarksville]

I don't think IPSec VPN will support IPX traffic. Netware 4.11 won't work with off-line files feature resident in W2K or WinXP either. Although there are several things I liked about Netware 4.11, there were beginning to be too many disadvantages to keep it around. We are currently migrating off of Netware 4.11 for some of those reasons.

 

[lgarner]

GRE on the routers can encapsulate IPX traffic, but client VPN software can't as far as I know. The best solution would be to upgrade the server OS.

 

[bytehd]

Dudes: two Novell solutions:
IPTunnel or IPRelay
One is a Lan driver, the other is an NLM.
Its allows you to encaps IPX over IP.
Its included in NW4.X
google IPTunnel or IPRELAY

http://www.insyncva.com