nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (04/14/90)
Release 6.x of the Clarkson packet drivers is now available. A portion of the read.me file is appended, followed by the availability information. I believe that all the drivers are 99% bug-free. It is a moot point as I have been told by my boss (who was told by his boss) to spend less time on networking software, and more time on my real job. [If I had $5 for every machine running the packet drivers, this would *be* my real job, and Clarkson would be glad of the income.] If you wish to thank my boss for the time he has allowed me to put into this project, his E-mail address is "bray@sun.soe.clarkson.edu". I will not have time to act on any bug reports. Nonetheless, send them to me -- I will put them in a file called "bugs" that will be kept on sun.soe.clarkson.edu in the same directory as the drivers. Summary: New drivers: ni6510, at&t, arcnet, ipxpkt, nb, ne2000. New utilities: pktmulti, pktsend, pktstat. Bugs fixed: 3c505, 3c503, wd8003e. The Clarkson packet driver collection Availability The Clarkson collection of packet drivers is available by FTP, by archive-server, Fido file request, and by modem. They come in two flavors -- executables only (drivers.arc), and source+executables (driverss.arc). All of the following instructions apply to both drivers.arc and driverss.arc. FTP: sun.soe.clarkson.edu:/pub/ka9q/drivers.arc grape.ecs.clarkson.edu:/e/tcpip/drivers.arc Archive-server: Send mail to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu and put the following command as the body of your message: help This will send you a help message. Reading this help message will tell you how to fetch the packet drivers. Modem: Call the Clarkson Heath User's Group's BBS: (315)268-6667, 8N1, 1200/2400 Baud, 24 hours. Change to file area 24 and download drivers.arc. Opus: 260/360 in the Nodelist. Drivers.arc is file requestable. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems