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Agreed - IPX & Netware were way ahead of anyone else until years after MS released Active Directory. I actually started out working working with IBM using Toke
by jimmySixDOF 7y ago
Agreed - IPX & Netware were way ahead of anyone else until years after MS released Active Directory. I actually started out working working with IBM using Token Ring and installing Magde NIC Cards.
These days with NFV/SDN/Etc the "Network" is more a spaghetti of virtual circuits. Try drawing a diagram of east-west pod traffic using VMWare NSX/vSANs in a hyperconverged ACI overlay environment and you will run out of ink !
- mixmastamyk 7y agoStill sorta remember my startnet.bat from '94ish: lsl 3c50{3,5,9} ipxodi netx rem Somthing about F: drive goes here rem Then login There was no fiddling with network or node addresses. I think networks were somehow configured thru the Netware server, but can't remember.