ken@sun.soe (Ken) (08/30/88)
Does anyone have an ethernet driver for a 3COM 3C501 that they could send me? Also, a question - will I have to get additional TCP/IP software in order to be able to talk to the outside world on the Internet? If so, where can I get it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ken Internet: luken@spot.cc.lehigh.edu or luken@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (09/02/88)
In article <1300@sun.soe> ken@sun.soe (Ken) writes: >Does anyone have an ethernet driver for a 3COM 3C501 that they could >send me? Also, a question - will I have to get additional TCP/IP >software in order to be able to talk to the outside world on the >Internet? If so, where can I get it? Ethernet cards are getting to be a dime a dozen. TCP/IP implementations are another story. An ethernet card is only about 5% of the solution. I have had VERY good luck with a TCP/IP product integrated into Bell Tech's V/386 product produced by a company called "Streamlined Networks." It's essentially a packaging of the 4.3BSD TCP/IP package, with incoming and outgoing r-commands, telnet and ftp. It worked perfectly out of the box(!) on MIT's subnetted LAN, and I can get anythere in the Internet with it without problems. It uses a Bell-Tech modified Western Digital board, but it may be that Streamlined Networks has versions for other boards. I don't know whether or not they have a Microport V/386 product, but I would be surprised if they didn't, given its similarity to Bell Tech V/386. Streamlined Networks' VP, Lance Norskog, can be reached at pacbell!belltech!lance. My copy doesn't, at present, have SMTP support, and I haven't tried to port sendmail to it, since I get mail on another machine. I'd be surprised if it was too hard to port, however. I don't know whether SNs has addressed this or not, since I haven't been in touch with them lately. -- Steve Dyer dyer@harvard.harvard.edu dyer@spdcc.COM aka {harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c,mipseast}!spdcc!dyer
bae@unisoft.UUCP (Hwa Jin Bae) (09/02/88)
Steve Dyer mentioned that he doesn't think sendmail is too hard to port to Streamlined networks TCP/IP; I did it and it was very easy. Streamlined networks makes newer version of their TCP/IP based on STREAMS. I believe their earlier releases were basically a port of their 286 TCP/IP verision originally done for uport V/AT (thus, using non-STREAMS device driver). The alpha version of STREAMS TCP/IP from them worked just fine too. Their 4.3 BSD TCP/IP port includes recent work by Van Jacobson/Karels congestion control, etc. Note: I speak only as a satisfied customer. -- Hwa Jin Bae bae@unisoft.UniSoft UniSoft ...!ames!lll-crg!lll-lcc!unisoft!bae Emeryville, CA ...!uunet!unisoft!bae