ljm@TWG.COM (Leo J McLaughlin) (07/12/89)
Predag, > > I need advice on: > > o Which card to buy for this particular setup > Either the 3c503 or WD8003 cards are good choices. We [Wollongong] get better FTP performance (~330K/sec vs ~260K/sec) with the 3c503 cards but other vendors have reported the reverse. > o Which software to buy Many, many vendors support TCP/IP on DOS. The current PC Magazine has a review of the products offered by Excelan, IBM, 3Com, CMC, Fusion, Sun, FTP Software, and The Wollongong Group. The article gives a description of each product and will give you telephone numbers and addresses of the various vendors. In addition, a number of public or quasi-public domain code packages are available including NCSA, Phil Karn's KA9Q, and PC-IP. > Would software be included with the card by any chance?? Excelan, CMC, and 3Com's PCS/1 package come with their own smart board (the protocol stack lives on the board). Generally speaking, smart board systems are more expensive but take up less RAM. Also, their performance is bound by the on-board processor -- good news if your host is an 8088, bad news if it is an 80386. In addition, Fusion offers the WD8003 board as an option on their host resident software. enjoy, leo j mclaughlin iii Project Manager The Wollongong Group ljm@twg.com
RAF@NIHCU.BITNET (Roger Fajman) (07/14/89)
> Many, many vendors support TCP/IP on DOS. The current PC Magazine > has a review of the products offered by Excelan, IBM, 3Com, CMC, Fusion, > Sun, FTP Software, and The Wollongong Group. The article gives a > description of each product and will give you telephone numbers and > addresses of the various vendors. In addition, a number of public or > quasi-public domain code packages are available including NCSA, Phil Karn's > KA9Q, and PC-IP. I was suprised that the article barely mentioned TN3270 and did not consider it at all in the evaluation. It's a requirement for those of us with a need to access IBM mainframes. So bear in mind that if your requirements don't match PC Magazine's you may get a different answer than they did.