NEUMANN@AWIWUW11.BITNET (Gustaf Neumann) (02/06/89)
Hi everybody, has anbody an actual list of devices for which packet drivers (according to FTPs packet driver specification) exist? Has anybody volunteered to write a packet driver for NETBIOS (eg. according to Leo J McLaughlin's <ljm@TWG.COM> specification that he published in this mailing list in dec 88)?? I would be greatly interested. -Gustaf Neumann University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, Austria
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (02/06/89)
The commercial Packet Drivers that I know of are all for specific interfaces: InterLAN NI5010, NI5210 (built into Netware) Univation NC-516 (bare driver, usable w/Netware, Lifenet) Schneider & Koch PC-bus and MCA cards (no details, usable w/Netware) Spider Systems SpiderMonitor (for add-on TCP/IP sold with it) Sytek both Ether and Broadband (no details, usable w/Netware) TCL Ethernet board (no details, usable w/Netware) TRW PC-2000 (bare driver, tested (but not sold) w/PC/NFS) In addition, the following should hit the streets soon: 10-Net Communications 200-series, 300-series (bare driver, usable w/10-Net) FTP Software Microsoft NDIS/MAC-to-Packet-Driver adapter Gateway Communications PC, AT & MCA cards (no details, may not be shipping) IMC Networks PC-NIC, PC-NIC II (both bare & built into Netware) Most of the above are sold bundled with hardware, and sometimes with Netware and/or TCP/IP. There will be a few more later this year. See Russ Nelson's reply for his non-commercial drivers for the WD8003, NI5010, NI5210 and SLIP over COMn. They're working on NCSA support at Clarkson, too. Karl Auerbach added the TRW PC-2000 driver to the Harvard version of PC-IP. Phil Karn added support for it to KA9Q last Fall. Kelly Macdonald's people did a version of Netware that calls the P-D. It has been given to Novell, for inclusion in the distributed source code, but I don't know if it is shipping yet. James B. VanBokkelen We're moving. After 2/26, the new number FTP Software Inc. will be (617) 246-0900.
morgan@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (02/07/89)
> FTP Software Microsoft NDIS/MAC-to-Packet-Driver adapter
Hmm, an innaresting concept. Will this support both
NDIS-above/PD-below and PD-above/NDIS-below (for lack of better
terminology)?
- RL "Bob"jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (02/09/89)
NDIS/MAC lets the application decide which packets it wants, by inspection. The Packet Driver requires that the application supply the values from the standard MAC-layer demultiplexing fields that match the packets desired. As such, an NDIS/MAC layered on top of a P-D loses a bunch of functionality, and we presently have no reason to do one. Going the other way, P-D on top of NDIS/MAC, you gain functionality, and we had a reason to do it as well. James B. VanBokkelen We're moving. After 2/26, the new number FTP Software Inc. will be (617) 246-0900.