david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (David Lassner) (02/28/89)
We're interested in putting together one or more Novell networks with PC and PS/2 type machines. And we want each machine to also be able to telnet and ftp out to our campus network (ProNet-80). We know that at least Excelan and U-B offer hardware/software solutions for this. Any other vendors we should be checking with? Any opinions or horror stories will be appreciated. We're a public university and are especially interested in site license deals that don't nickel and dime us on each workstation. Are there any cards that are supported for simultaneous use of the Novell network OS and NCSA Telnet or other free TCP/IP software? -- David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351 INTERNET: david@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu BITNET: david@uhccux
jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (03/15/89)
In article <3021@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, anderer@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (David G Anderer) writes: > Ok, I've just gotten in over my head. Can someone explain what the > Packet Driver spec is, what it does, what layer it operates at, etc, etc? > It is a specification for a DOS-oriented software interface between one or more protocol stacks and a single MAC-layer hardware driver. It provides hardware-independent shared access for sending packets, and demultiplexing and delivery to the proper protocol stack for incoming packets. It does not attempt to allow the protocol stack to be independent of the MAC layer packet format. Other software interfaces with comparable purpose and functionality are the DEC "XE" driver under VMS, IBM's ASI interface for its DOS 802.5 cards, the Microsoft/3Com NDIS spec and the Apple/Novell OLI spec. The latest version (v1.08, still) can be anonymously FTP'ed from "ftp.com", pub/packet-d.ascii is straight printable ascii, packet-d.prn is for an HP Laserjet with TMS proportional II font cartridge, packet-d.mss is unformatted, for Borland Sprint or FinalWordII. -- James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901