pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford) (09/18/90)
Does anybody know if it is possible to run IBM's PC LAN Support Program (for Token Ring) over a packet driver ? (so that I can then run something else - such as an IP package - over the same interface) Peter Elford, e-mail: P.Elford@aarnet.edu.au Network Co-ordinator, phone: +61 6 249 3542 Australian Academic Research Network, fax: +61 6 247 3425 c/o, Computer Services Centre, post: PO Box 4 Australian National University Canberra 2601 Canberra, AUSTRALIA
jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) (09/18/90)
In article <1990Sep18.150203@jatz.aarnet.edu.au> pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter Elford) writes: >Does anybody know if it is possible to run IBM's PC LAN Support >Program (for Token Ring) over a packet driver ? (so that I can >then run something else - such as an IP package - over the same >interface) > I don't know of any hacked PC LAN for packet drivers but...... A few weeks ago IBM released an NDIS protocol driver for their PC LAN program, (the driver is called DXME0MOD.SYS). -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."
jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen") (09/19/90)
Does anybody know if it is possible to run IBM's PC LAN Support
Program (for Token Ring) over a packet driver?
The IBM ASI spec is conceptually similar to the Packet Driver spec;
it allows multiple protocol stacks to share one piece of hardware,
and it lets them be independent of specific hardware implementations.
There is a freeware Packet Driver which makes ASI 802.5 look like
Ethernet, but it contains a lot of code to change Ethernet packet
formats into 802.5 packet formats (which are not the same), and this
code can get into trouble with some upper-layer functionality (ARP
caches). What you propose is possible, but a lot of work, and hasn't
been done to my knowlege.
If the result you want is to run IP on 802.5, alongside other 802.5
software, this is much simpler. You need one of the IP packages that
supports ASI (they're all commercial: PC/TCP, IBM's, WIN/PC), or one
of the Ethernet freeware packages on top of the adapter I mentioned
above, which is in the Clarkson collection.
James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
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