david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU ("David J. Camp") (11/30/89)
Is it possible to load an FTP-Spec packet driver, and then load Microsoft Windows, and then access the driver from multiple applications in separate windows? -David- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110
romkey@amiga.UUCP (John Romkey) (11/30/89)
The packet driver does not support multiple instances of a specific protocol stack. That is, if you want to run FTP and Telnet simultaneously, they have to use the same TCP stack even if they're different programs. NCSA telnet won't work here, because you'd have two completely separate instances of TCP loaded in for the two distinct applications you're running. You'd need to run something with a terminate-and-stay-resident TCP to do this properly. The major commercial TCP products, like like FTP Software's PC/TCP, Sun's PC/NFS and Wollongong's WIN/PC should all do this for you, with varying success under various flavors of Microsoft Windows. I don't know of any non-commercial TCP's that do. - john romkey USENET/UUCP: romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us Internet: romkey@ftp.com "Some people walk on water/Some people walk on broken glass/Some people walk round and round in their dreams/Some just keep falling down." Laurie Anderson
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (11/30/89)
This may or may not work, depending on the applications and the windows environment. The following requirements apply: 1. The applications can't be asking for the same Ethernet packet type: In other words, they can't both be IP; one could be XNS and another IP. 2. The windows environment had better not swap (or move) either application at a time when the packet driver might give it a packet, because if it does, the receiver() upcall will go direct to 3-finger-salute city... 3. The window environment had better allow access to arbitrary interrupts from within a window (I don't know how 386 virtual 8086s will do with this). James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901