lim@cwlim.CWRU.EDU (Hock-Koon Lim) (10/26/88)
Hi, I have just installed the NCSA_Telnet 2.2 on my IBM PS2/50 with 3Com 3C523 MC card. I have to said it is a wonderful software and I like it very much. However, I have run into some problems when I set my PC as a workstation on the Novell network. I can start telnet and login to other unix host on the campus network. When I try to close the connection by using Alt-x key, NCSA_Telnet respone with a message: Attempting to close . . . and the PC will halt with the system message of Internal stack overflow System halt I have to power off the PC in order to rebot it. The problem will not occur if my pc is not boot up as a Novell workstation. Is someone out there have experience with this kind of problem? Hock Koon Lim, A. R. Jennings Computing Center Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio, USA 44106 (216) 368-2982 lim@cwlim.cwru.edu
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (10/27/88)
The NCSA code is trying to use the same network card as the Netware is. They collide, and since Netware has its fingers very deep into DOS, it crashes. No cure, unless the Netware OEM does something which allows interface sharing (e.g. implements our Packet Driver specification or something like it), and you get a version of NCSA which uses that software interface, rather than talking to the board directly. A number of Netware OEMs have implemented interface-sharing (none use 3Com hardware, though), and TCP/IP which uses the Packet Driver spec is available commercially from us, and in the CMU PC-IP and Phil Karn's KA9Q freeware packages. Some people at BYU posted a note about a generic version of Netware they developed which calls the Packet Driver spec, too. This would work on any hardware for which a packet driver is available, but as of this moment, I don't know of a Packet Driver for the 3C523. V1.05 of the Packet Driver spec is available for anonymous FTP from vax.ftp.com, as pub/packet-d.ascii. V1.08 will see the light of day by 11/14. Should I post it? James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.