ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) (04/13/90)
I'd like to propose an enhancement to the packet driver spec. Those of us who use multi-taskers (Desqview, Windows, etc) are not able to cleanly use Novell netware and other network software at the same time. The netware shell can't be loaded in a window, therefore the packet driver must be loaded before the multi-tasker. Applications like telnet will run in a window, but if there are other applications running in the background, telnet will eventually hang. The packet driver is executing the function pointed to by receiver, but the real receiver is paged out. It would be nice to have a modified access_type function that allowed a software interrupt to be used as the receiver. Applications like telnet could be modified to support hooking an interrupt to get packets. Desqview, and I assume others, seems to be able to deal with this type of interface. Any thoughts? Steven Wallace ssw@lavanix.ucs.indiana.edu