jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (04/26/88)
Arranged in the order in which the support became available: Univation Inc. of Milpitas, CA sells an Ethernet board (model NC-516) for the PC and AT, and a software driver with it. They support co-existence between TCP/IP and Novell Netware or Lifenet. Schneider & Koch GmBh, of Karlsruhe, Federal Republic of Germany, has a board for the PC and AT, and provides the Packet Driver interface as part of their version of Novell netware. It is likely to run on any other Ethernet boards they offer, also. MICOM-Interlan, of Westborough, MA, provides a version of Novell Netware which supports the Packet Driver spec. It runs on at least their NI5210 board, and maybe others. Spider Systems Ltd. of Edinburgh, U.K., will soon support it on their SpiderMonitor network monitor product (as an add-on that allows the network monitor to be used as a workstation). I know of two others under development in the U.S., one running, one still debugging. In addition, Sytek offers products which are quite close to the Packet Driver spec. I'll check with them to see what (if anything) they changed... James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.
karl@TRWIND.IND.TRW.COM (Karl Auerbach) (04/26/88)
TRW Information Networks of Torrence, California [(213) 373-9161] has a packet driver for their new Ethernet board. They also have PC-NFS running through the packet driver. I am distributing a driver for the MIT/CMU PC-IP code that allows it to run on a packet driver. (Those of you out there who have requested a copy and who have not received a copy, please let me know again.) --karl--
asher@TONTO.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU (Samuel Asher) (04/26/88)
I am interested in your packet driver. Please tell me what to do to get a copy. Thank you. Samuel Asher University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14626
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) (04/26/88)
I'm not sure what you want: The specification itself, which I can give you, or the code that Karl wrote, which you have to get from him. I posted a copy of the specification to 'pcip' a week or two ago. It is also available via anonymous FTP from "vax.ftp.com". There are three files: packet-d.mss is unformatted, for processing by FinalWord II (which has a syntax quite close to Scribe); packet-d.prn is formatted for an HP LaserJet with the "TMS Proportional 2" font cartridge, and packet-d.ascii is straight ascii, without even form-feeds. James VanBokkelen FTP Software Inc.