JRD@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) (08/24/90)
PC-NFS simultaneously with NCSA Telnet: As Steve Wallace pointed out a packet driver does not deliver multiple copies of a packet to different clients. And the reason that is important is NFS uses UDP (kissing cousin to TCP) and IP and so does the NCSA Telnet package. What's worse is PC-NFS wants ALL packets and does sorting internally. Depending on whose Packet Driver support one uses with PC-NFS this may or may not be livable. Mine puts omnivorous clients at the very end of the line for getting fed so that NCSA Telnet can nibble at TCP/UDP/IP packets first (but NFS starves). One commercial offering, PC/TCP from FTP Software Inc, supports NFS as an option so one has all the normal TCP/IP items and NFS in one coherent coperative bundle. There are other commercial packages doing the same. Joe D.