Novell software 4 or 5

[Dustin Decker]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Jason Clinton wrote:

> Viri and security bugs don't infect the network layer, they affect the operating 
> system's implementation of it. IIRC, Novel still uses the standard Microsoft 
> TCP/IP/NETBIOS stack for its comunications which means that your Network is as 
> vulnerable as ever. Spend a little while looking up ARP poison attacks that can 
> be carried out on the MS TCP/IP layer for confirmation of this fact.

I don't suppose you've ever heard of IPX or SPX.

> Novel's software these days amounts to little more than a feable attempt at 
> sustaining a company that didn't change with the times. It's a simple 
> authentation and network archtecture maintenace system that anyone with adequate 
>   *nix skills could implement.

Novell's (still spelled with two L's Jason) software these days amounts to 
little more than the result of trying to compete only in the server market 
at a time when desktop ubiquity of another company made it a moot point.  
they did what they could to keep things alive with what at the time was 
the defacto standard for directory services... only to be co-opted and 
supplanted by the same company holding the desktop aces.

> Though, I do agree that if you have a company that's paying you to look after 
> it, more power to you. I personally, though, wouldn't mind seeing Novel's 
> proprietary network 'technology' going the way of the Do-Do.

Saddly, you are correct in assuming that they are going the way of the 
Do-Do bird.  You are (not surprisingly to me) unfortunately assuming that 
Linux is the replacement.  Look around you - in those cases it's Windows 
2000.

Beating a dead horse obviously,
Dustin

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