john@ai.etl.army.mil (John Benton) (01/04/90)
I previously posted a request for advice on the best way to connect PC
compatibles and McIntoshes to our TCP/IP network. NCSA Telnet and KA9Q were
the two packages most frequently recommended for PC connectivity. I want to
thank everyone who responded.
I have been comparing the features of KA9Q and NCSA Telnet and I have several
questions that I hope someone will be able to answer so that I can make a
decision on which system we should use.
(1) Can the POP3 software from Clarkson University be used with NCSA
Telnet.
(2) KA9Q has SMPT mail support but how does it handle the problem
that your PC may not be turned on (or may be performing some
other task) when mail arrives for your PC. Is a PC server
required.
(3) Are there performance penalties in using Russ Nelson's Packet Driver
with NCSA compared to using NCSA's built-in driver support. You
can go either way with the WD8003 card but only the packet driver
supports 3C503, NE1000, etc.
Many Thanks,
John
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(202) 355-2717 CSNET: john%etl.army.mil@RELAY.CS.NETnelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (01/04/90)
In article <389@ai.etl.army.mil> john@ai.etl.army.mil (John Benton) writes:
I have been comparing the features of KA9Q and NCSA Telnet and I
have several questions that I hope someone will be able to answer
so that I can make a decision on which system we should use.
(1) Can the POP3 software from Clarkson University be used with NCSA
Telnet.
That's Clemson University. No, it's designed to work with PC-IP.
(2) KA9Q has SMPT mail support but how does it handle the problem
that your PC may not be turned on (or may be performing some
other task) when mail arrives for your PC. Is a PC server
required.
That's SMTP. You've just spotted with big flaw in using SMTP to transfer
mail -- both sides have to be up at the same time. Yes, you need a server.
And it should probably have a POP[23] server so that you can use a POP[23]
client to fetch the mail.
(3) Are there performance penalties in using Russ Nelson's
Packet Driver with NCSA compared to using NCSA's built-in
driver support. You can go either way with the WD8003 card
but only the packet driver supports 3C503, NE1000, etc.
Good question. I don't use NCSA Telnet all that much. I can assert that
there won't be much, if any, penalty with KA9Q.
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