young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu (George Young) (05/01/91)
We have two IBM ATs and two Zenith 386 machines, all running DOS. I need to connect them up to our local (thinnet) ethernet so they can telnet and ftp to our Sun SparcServer 4/390 (only client side is needed), and most importantly, dump to the tape drive on the Sun. I realize there are probably dozens of ways to set this up but we have a big constraint: money. We will have to buy an ethernet board for each machine, of course. But I would hope to be able to use PD software. We don't care about optimal speed; anything would be better than serial-port Kermit transfers. We don't(I think) need the multiple protocol stacks often discussed here, just tcp/ip. Our other constraint is expertise: I'm a sun-vax/unix hacker/sysadmin, no pc experience. We have a modest pc hardware hacker with no networking experience. I can spend a few days hacking this into shape, but not weeks. So all( :)) ) I need is a) recommendation for a cheap pc ethernet board (specific source?). b) supercheap software to work with that board. c) hints, warnings, suggestions for making it all work. I will post summary of email responses, if requested. George Young, Rm. B-141 young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu MIT Lincoln Laboratory young@vdd.vlsi.ll.mit.edu 244 Wood St. [129.55.11.1] Lexington, Massachusetts 02173-9108 (617) 981-2756 -- George Young, Rm. B-141 young@vlsi.ll.mit.edu MIT Lincoln Laboratory young@vdd.vlsi.ll.mit.edu 244 Wood St. [129.55.11.1] Lexington, Massachusetts 02173-9108 (617) 981-2756
romkey@ASYLUM.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) (05/01/91)
We (Epilogue) have an Exabyte tape drive hooked up to a Sun 3/160; we use FTP Software's rtar on our PCs to do backups. We use Western Digital ethernet boards. They're not super-cheap, but they're not bad on price. PC/TCP isn't free, either, but I am associated with FTP Software (by way of disclaimer) so I tend to use it. I believe that some of the other commercial packages also have a networked tar, but I don't know of any free ones that run under PC-DOS. - john romkey Epilogue Technology USENET/UUCP/Internet: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us voice/fax: 415 594-1141
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (05/01/91)
In article <9104302047.AA09558@asylum.sf.ca.us> romkey@ASYLUM.SF.CA.US (John Romkey) writes:
I believe that some of the other commercial packages also have a
networked tar, but I don't know of any free ones that run under
PC-DOS.
I hacked the code to *read* a tar file from a MS-DOS machine into Phil
Karn's KA9Q. The patches can be found in
sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/ka9q/diffs.arc
Adding the code to write a tar file's contents shouldn't be too tough.
-russ
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