mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) (02/14/91)
Thanks to Russ Nelson for his reply. I am posting it because I feel
it is informative and it raises another question. I asked:
- Is there a packet driver which will allow NCSA telnet to work
with Banyan Vines? Presently, I must reboot without loading the
banyan software in order to use NCSA telnet.
Russ answered:
Rather, what you want to know is, can Banyan Vines use a packet driver.
The answer (as far as I know) is no.
I can suppress loading of the banyan network driver with "ban /nc
/nl". Then TSRs "intr2ban", "redir3 /h /e", and "tsr2a" cause the
banyan driver(s?) to be loaded into extended memory instead of low
memory. Are there variations here that would allow me to load an
alternate packet driver which is compatible with NCSA telnet?
Could someone describe the function of a redirector (e.g. redir3) in
contrast to a packet driver? How are intr2ban and tsr2a related?
PC/TCP has a driver called ebanyan.exe which must loaded after the
banyan software but before their TCP applications will work. How do
they handle this problem?
- How does one use alternate packet drivers (e.g. the w3pktdr2.zip
drivers modified for windows 3.0, found at ncsa's ftp site).
Those packet drivers are old, and they don't *really* "work" under
windows 3.0. What they *do* do is not crash, which isn't exactly the
same thing. :)
Are they TSRs which must be loaded before the application program?
Yes.
If so, will a program like NCSA telnet, which seems to have
built-in drivers, work properly with them?
If you select hardware=packet, yes.
--russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson
I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.
Thanks again,
Scott
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PC/TCP has a driver called ebanyan.exe which must loaded after the
banyan software but before their TCP applications will work.
Banyan has a proprietary interface which does many of the same things
that the Packet Driver spec does, and that's what EBANYAN talks to.
EBANYAN is an instance of our PC/TCP TCP/IP TSR transport module.
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