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From: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: comp.dcom.lans
Summary: Commercial TCP/IPs can also use the Packet Driver...
Keywords: NOVELL & TCP/IP
Message-ID: <736@ftp.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 89 18:08:10 GMT
References: <489@excelan.COM> <6635@pdn.paradyne.com>
Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
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In article <6635@pdn.paradyne.com>, dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon(0000)) writes:
> Using the packet drivers available from clarkson.edu (anon FTP) you can
> access both Unix hosts and Novell Servers using the same card.  And lots
> of cards are supported.  Even ones as cheap as two to three hundred dollars.
> (Last time I checked, Excelan's cards were a little more expensive then
>  that)
> 
> Don't be fooled by vendors.  There is lots of Public Domain software
> available which runs circles around stuff vendors would be happy to
> sell you for lots of $$.  NCSA Telnet for example: I have yet to see 
> a PC (or MAC) Telnet/Tn3270/FTP package that can touch it.  And most 
> of the ones I have seen were quite expensive.

As of this moment, the following TCP/IPs for DOS support the Packet Driver
and interface-sharing with BYU Netware (in order of introduction):

FTP's PC/TCP (commercial)
CMU version of PC-IP (public-domain; Karl Auerbach's TRW driver was the first)
Phil Karn's KA9Q (no-commercial-use copyright)
Clarkson version of NCSA (public-domain)
WIN/PC from Wollongong (I'm not sure if this is commercially available yet).
PC/NFS from Sun (not supported by Sun, but available via Clarkson).

If there weren't at least some people out there who think they're getting what
they pay for, I'd be in another line of work.-- 
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