Business organizations, each with its own enterprise network, sometimes merge or agree to share information. Or, these same organizations might want to connect their networks to a larger public internetwork to use the services it provides. This means that all network numbers throughout the connected organizations must be unique.

For this purpose, Novell offers the Novell Network Registry. The Novell Network Registry service assigns and tracks IPX network addresses and organization names. The Novell Network Registry enables participating organizations to share data between interconnected NetWare networks without name and address conflicts.

The Novell Network Registry assigns a contiguous "block" of IPX network addresses that are unique to your organization. The size of your address block depends on the number of NetWare LANs and servers in your IPX internetwork, including any additional LANs or servers you anticipate installing over the next two years.

To learn more about the Novell Network Registry, or to reserve a block of IPX network addresses, call 1-408-577-7506 or send Internet e-mail to registry@novell.com. You can also send e-mail by way of the Novell NHUB system to registry@novell. Ask for the publication The Novell Network Registry.