deborah@CITI.UMICH.EDU (Deborah Swanberg) (12/05/88)
I'm working on a project at the University of Michigan with Northern Telecom to get ip running over their Lanstar network, and provide gateways to the internet. We've chosen to work with ka9q because of its public availability. We're working on the PC PS/2 30, 50, and 80. I need an ethernet card and driver for the MCA architecture. In hopes of not duplicating effort, is anyone writing a public domain (or shareware) driver for and MCA ethernet card? (It's preferable, but not necessary that it be written according to the FTP Software Packet Driver Specifications.) If so, which card is it being written for? When will it be available? Where can I get it? Deborah Swanberg Center for Information Technology Integration (CITI) University of Michigan 2901 Hubard Ann Arbor, MI 48105 313-763-7479 deborah@citi.umich.edu
timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf) (12/06/88)
NCSA Telnet contains two drivers for MCA cards. All of the code is in the public domain. There was a past posting that someone took our MICOM NI5210 driver and converted it to packet-driver spec, so it can be done again, I am sure. Anonymous FTP from 128.174.20.50. Tim Krauskopf timk@ncsa.uiuc.edu (ARPA) National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (12/06/88)
Regarding the NT Lanstar, I think that it is supported by Banyan's VINES LAN operating system. If so, you can get a version of our PC/TCP from them which will send IP packets over Lanstar encapsulated in VINES IPC packets, and let the VINES server act as an IP router to forward them onto another network. If you want to send IP in a native encapsulation on Lanstar, you will need to define one first, and then develop some sort of IP router to get the packets onto more widely-used LANs. This will be quite a bit of work, but such is life... James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.
nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (12/07/88)
In article <8812051917.AA04525@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu> timk@NCSA.UIUC.EDU (Tim Krauskopf) writes:
NCSA Telnet contains two drivers for MCA cards. All of the code is in
the public domain. There was a past posting that someone took our
MICOM NI5210 driver and converted it to packet-driver spec, so it can
be done again, I am sure.
Yes. However, NCSA Telnet doesn't use interrupts for its drivers, and the
packet spec virtually requires interrupts (you *could* use polling and the
timer interrupt, gack.) So, the NCSA Telnet code is helpful but not
sufficient. Similarly, the Fossil spec (used by Fido BBSes, Opus BBSes,
and BinkleyTerm terminal emulators) doesn't support upcalls, so it is
unsatisfactory for SLIP usage.
The drivers are available in two ways-- You can either FTP drivers.arc
from sun.soe.clarkson.edu in pub/ka9q, or you can get them from the
Clarkson archive server, archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. Send
three separate messages consisting of 'send ka9q drivers0X' (where X
is 1, 2, and 3) and you will get three parts of a uuencoded .arc file
back. If the From: address in the header isn't an internet or bitnet
address, include a "path foo!bar!whatever@baz.domain.address" line so
that sun.soe can get back to you.
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--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu])
To surrender is to remain in the hands of barbarians for the rest of my life.
To fight is to leave my bones exposed in the desert waste.hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (12/08/88)
In article <8812051923.AA18318@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) writes:
%Regarding the NT Lanstar, I think that it is supported by Banyan's VINES
%LAN operating system. If so, you can get a version of our PC/TCP from
%them which will send IP packets over Lanstar encapsulated in VINES IPC
%packets, and let the VINES server act as an IP router to forward them
%onto another network.
%
%If you want to send IP in a native encapsulation on Lanstar, you will need
%to define one first, and then develop some sort of IP router to get the
%packets onto more widely-used LANs. This will be quite a bit of work,
%but such is life...
%
%James VanBokkelen
%FTP Software Inc.
Bill Doster did some work with this a year and a half ago. This was also
with KA9Q. The KA9Q package worked well for the task, with both the Lanstar
and ethernet cards active.
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