[comp.protocols.appletalk] PC AppleShare and 3C501?

morgan@jessica.Stanford.EDU (RL "Bob" Morgan) (09/11/90)

I'm helping a group that has a pile of ATs with 3Com 3C501 Ethernet
cards in them.  They want to use Apple's AppleShare PC on them, but
the distribution has no 3C501 driver for O[D|L]I, the Novell/Apple
interface spec.  Does anyone know if there is an "MLID" (the O[D|L]I
term for an interface card driver) for the 3C501 anywhere?

Alternately, I think I heard someone claim that it would be reasonable
to write an O[D|L]I to packet driver glue function that would give
O[D|L]I users access to the large set of packet driver drivers.  Has
anyone heard about such a thing becoming real?

 - RL "Bob" Morgan
   Networking Systems
   Stanford

nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (09/11/90)

In article <1990Sep10.172847.20055@portia.Stanford.EDU> morgan@jessica.Stanford.EDU (RL "Bob" Morgan) writes:

   Alternately, I think I heard someone claim that it would be reasonable
   to write an O[D|L]I to packet driver glue function that would give
   O[D|L]I users access to the large set of packet driver drivers.  Has
   anyone heard about such a thing becoming real?

Well, if you listen to Byte Magazine, there *is* no such thing as the packet
drivers, and the only two networking "standards" are NDIS and ODI (or whatever
the real name is).

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