P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni) (03/27/91)
Has anyone been successful in running PCBridge (on a PC/XT with two WD8003E cards)? I'm having the weirdest problems and would be interested in hearing from anyone who's using PCBridge in production. Thanks Doron
evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen) (03/28/91)
P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni) writes: >Has anyone been successful in running PCBridge (on a PC/XT with >two WD8003E cards)? I'm having the weirdest problems and would >be interested in hearing from anyone who's using PCBridge in >production. Well, not really in production, but I have run it for a couple of hours on my own 386 with two WD8003e cards. I modified the program to only filter Banyan Vines packets (this was very simple, about 20 lines, half of which was devoted to a keyboard-check to be able to terminate the program without rebooting) and it worked ok. -- Eelco van Asperen. || Erasmus University Rotterdam uucp: evas@cs.eur.nl || Department of Computer Science, room H5-1 no claims - no disclaimers || PObox 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
mah@dec1.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Haberler) (03/29/91)
In article <1991Mar28.081834.1378@cs.eur.nl>, evas@cs.eur.nl (Eelco van Asperen) writes: |> P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni) writes: |> >Has anyone been successful in running PCBridge (on a PC/XT with |> >two WD8003E cards)? I'm having the weirdest problems and would |> >be interested in hearing from anyone who's using PCBridge in |> >production. |> We have about 5 or six PCroute's (not PCbridge) in production use - no problems in over a year and a half. There used to be a bug in the Serial Port handler which locked up the port under high traffic, but that's long since been fixed. - michael
alan@oetl1.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg) (04/02/91)
In article <91086.144020P85025@BARILVM.BITNET> P85025@BARILVM.BITNET (Doron Shikmoni) writes: >Has anyone been successful in running PCBridge (on a PC/XT with >two WD8003E cards)? I'm having the weirdest problems and would >be interested in hearing from anyone who's using PCBridge in >production. Here's a couple gotcha's we discovered. Initially PCBridge was swamped due to broadcast traffic. Code changes to incorporate the following have been forwared to Vance. 'Smart' filtering solved our problem. - The only thing that was "broke" was that it left the interrupts off when the queue filled up. - The "smarter filtering" stuff: it passes Novell broadcasts and ARP broadcast packets that have a value other than 0 or 255 in the low byte of the target IP. Any other broadcast is dropped. The 0 and 255 values are from various beasts stupidly searching for their net masks and some legitimate traffic for routers and such. From netwatch it seemed that this was a large part of the traffic. Since it didn't seem like we should need any of this, I throwed it out and it quieted things down real nice. alan -- -- Alan Strassberg alan@oetl1.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (408) 425-6139 alan@leadsv.ese.lmsc.lockheed.com
amc@cup.portal.com (Alan Michael Crawley) (04/07/91)
Lanport Inc. of Pleasanton California owns the exclusive rights to Vance Morrison's PCRoute....the underlying code of PCBridge. They are making a commercial product out of it. For help or info call: Etienne Taylor @415-462-8700 Pacific Information Systems is a division of LANport Inc.