grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca ("Grant R. Guenther") (03/31/91)
We have a number of old ('87 ?) Corvus Omninet LAN cards. It is a while since I've looked at the specs, but as I recall they supported a 1 Mbit CSMA type LAN on cheap twisted pair wiring. It may not be possible, but has anyone out there ever tried making a packet driver for these things ? Performance would not be great, but it should be possible to make them behave like ethernet cards. I have sufficient technical data (somewhere) to give this a try, but I don't want to re-invent the wheel - nor do I want to waste time on something that has already been proven impossible. Does anyone have any wisdom on this ? Thanks Grant Guenther, Math & C.S., Laurentian U., Sudbury, Canada grant@ramsey.cs.laurentian.ca
jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (04/02/91)
We have a number of old ('87 ?) Corvus Omninet LAN cards. ... has anyone out there ever tried making a packet driver for these things ? There is a Class assigned to Omninet (4), but I am not aware of anyone's ever using it, or even of a formal standard for IP over Omninet. If you want to do a "fake Ethernet" driver, I can give you a "Type" value in Class 1. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901