NEUMANN@AWIWUW11.BITNET (04/05/88)
Date: 5 April 1988, 02:40:26 MEZ From: NEUMANN at AWIWUW11 To: PCIP@UDEL.EDU at EDU Subject: NETBIOS support for KA9Q Maybe somebody is interested in netbios driver for ka9q. The code I can provide emerged from a version of Kelly McDonald of BYU (thanks again Kelly :-). It has been improved a little and is running now nicely with the dez25 release of ka9q. In our setup one PC is gateway between the university wide ethernet backbone and our local netbios based IBM PC network. On the netbios side the driver shares the network card with the IBM PC LAN program. Hence is possible to use (from eg one unix machine on the ethernet) PC LAN network devices (disks or printers) via ftp. Our main usage is to telnet from the PCs to the Unix machines. We have the IBM 2Mb baseband LAN installed. The software also works with the IBM token ring (we have had an test installation for one weekend). Kelly uses a Novell network. Communication is done using netbios datagrams. The speed is not overwhelming (ftp to PCs in the PC LAN: 6-10 Kbytes/sec, from PCs about 2-3 Kbytes/sec; figures are from disk to disk). The driver is running now reliably (without hangups) since January. If somebody is interested in the stuff just send me a note, i will mail you the mods. -Gustaf Neumann University of Economics, Vienna