jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (08/22/89)
We already wrote one, which we ship with our Packet Driver kernel, but there
are a couple of caevats:
1. You can't buy a Protocol Manager yet except from a LAN Manager OEM.
Excelan implemented a kludge which allows you to avoid the PM, but
I don't know of any others who have.
2. The Protocol Managers you can get (by buying 3+/Open or another LM-based
product) have several bugs, which make it difficult (but not impossible,
I'm told) to get two stacks to run at the same time.
3. Not everyone implemented the same subset of the DIS spec.
4. In general, the board vendors aren't yet convinced they ought to ship
any driver (ODI, DIS, Packet Driver), with the interface card itself,
so our problems of support and version control are still there.
We've put the adapter up for anonymous FTP, but only in binary form, and
we have no immediate plans to release source (partly the driver is still
up in the air in some areas, but it would also encourage us if you and/or
Leo M released something of similar worth...).
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