I have Novell SBS 5 and I am running the DHCP server on the Novell box along with NAT to provide internet connectivity.
I recently purchased a Firewall appliance and hooked it up to our LAN. I told the appliance to handle the DHCP services and shutdown the 1 NIC in the Novell box (it has 2, 1 for connection to the LAN and 1 for the Internet, I shutdown the internet one)
My Pervasive clients are set to run over SPX and I made no changes to the NIC that handles the SPX traffic. But after I disabled the DHCP in Novell and the NIC that handled the TCP/IP internet traffic all of a sudden we could not access our Pervaisve database from the Win98 clients, the W2K and XP workstations could access it no problem... (all workstations are set to use SPX as their preffered protocol)
So I put everything back the way it was and it all started working again... my question is Any ideas as to why? Pervasive is supposed to be working over SPX, I only made a change to the TCP/IP... I can't figure out what went wrong...
Thanks
Paul
I recently purchased a Firewall appliance and hooked it up to our LAN. I told the appliance to handle the DHCP services and shutdown the 1 NIC in the Novell box (it has 2, 1 for connection to the LAN and 1 for the Internet, I shutdown the internet one)
My Pervasive clients are set to run over SPX and I made no changes to the NIC that handles the SPX traffic. But after I disabled the DHCP in Novell and the NIC that handled the TCP/IP internet traffic all of a sudden we could not access our Pervaisve database from the Win98 clients, the W2K and XP workstations could access it no problem... (all workstations are set to use SPX as their preffered protocol)
So I put everything back the way it was and it all started working again... my question is Any ideas as to why? Pervasive is supposed to be working over SPX, I only made a change to the TCP/IP... I can't figure out what went wrong...
Thanks
Paul