scottw@sequent.UUCP (Scott Williams) (05/31/90)
Got a fun question for you all... Has anyone ever tried to concurrently run DECNET and TCP/IP on a PC with a DEPCA card? Anyone ever written a packet driver for the DEPCA card--or will that even work with DECNET? Any help is appreciated. If there's enough interest, I'll post a summary. Thanks! Scott Williams ..!sequent!scottw Sequent Computer Systems or 503-526-3819 scottw@sequent.uucp
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (05/31/90)
In article <35930@sequent.UUCP> scottw@sequent.UUCP (Scott Williams) writes:
Has anyone ever tried to concurrently run DECNET and TCP/IP on a PC
with a DEPCA card? Anyone ever written a packet driver for the DEPCA
card--or will that even work with DECNET?
Sorry, there's no packet driver for a DEPCA card, but there's lots of
requests for one...
-russ
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667
Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problemsjbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (05/31/90)
DEC provides a software interface sharing scheme called DLL with PCSA and DECNet/DOS. Our PC/TCP and Wollongong's WIN/PC support it (DLL came in an early version and a late version - I know we handle both, I don't know about WIN/PC), with the minor restriction that we can't handle 4bsd "trailer" packets if too many PCSA features are in use (DEC only provides 8 "portals", and they don't always leave us the 5 we need to handle trailers as well as normal IP and ARP). I don't know of any freeware packages which support DLL. DEC is apparently changing direction to support NDIS instead, but I don't know if/when you can get an NDIS driver for the DEPCA. If you can get one, look through the archives for recent messages on who supports NDIS. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901