JSBOUR@UALR.BITNET (Steve Bour) (03/22/91)
Anybody out there have or know about a Clarkson-compatible packet driver for the Artisoft AE-2 ethernet card running in its native mode (the card can also emulate an NE-2000)? Artisoft doesn't seem interested in supplying the info we need to "roll our own" and we can't run the card in NE-2000 mode because it won't work with Lantastic that way. Steve Bour University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- Computing Services JSBOUR@UALR (BITNET)
cws@FTP.COM (Cris Shuldiner) (03/22/91)
Anybody out there have or know about a Clarkson-compatible packet driver
for the Artisoft AE-2 ethernet card running in its native mode (the card
can also emulate an NE-2000)? Artisoft doesn't seem interested in
supplying the info we need to "roll our own" and we can't run the card
in NE-2000 mode because it won't work with Lantastic that way.
Steve Bour
University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- Computing Services
JSBOUR@UALR (BITNET)
Steve,
I don't know of any AE-2 packet driver, but is there any reason that you
need to run Lantastic over the card directly? Artisoft has a version that
is independaent of the adaptor (ie: it runs over any netbios). This version
is 3.2 /AI (although there may be later versions by now). We have tested it
out over our RFC 1001/1002 netbios, but it should run over anybody's
netbios.
Using this setup, you would be able to run the card in NE-2000 mode with the
Clarkson Driver. The only caveat is that every node that wished to run
Lantastic would have to be running it over netbios over TCP/IP.
Also, have you checked with Artisoft about not being able to run Lantastic
over that car din NE-2000 mode? I had thought it was capable of that.
Cris Shuldiner Technical Support
cws@ftp.com FTP Software, Inc.
Ph: (617) 246-2920 Fax: (617) 245-7943
---------------------------------------------------------------------------nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (03/22/91)
In article <23B793FC00805F9C@UALR.BITNET> JSBOUR@UALR.BITNET (Steve Bour) writes:
Anybody out there have or know about a Clarkson-compatible packet driver
for the Artisoft AE-2 ethernet card running in its native mode (the card can
also emulate an NE-2000)? Artisoft doesn't seem interested in supplying the
info we need to "roll our own" and we can't run the card in NE-2000 mode
because it won't work with Lantastic that way.
Sigh. Why, why, *why* do they always do this? Here's a chance to
increase the applicability of their cards (and hence sales), and they
refuse it. I'll give Artisoft a call and dress them down. Maybe this
is a good time to get them to support the packet drivers (and give
Novell a run for the "TCP/IP and x" market).
--
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