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From: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: PC/IP and the Packet Driver.
Keywords: TCP/IP, packet driver
Message-ID: <7285@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 13 Oct 89 07:51:06 GMT
References: <489@excelan.COM> <6635@pdn.paradyne.com> <736@ftp.COM> <6646@pdn.paradyne.com>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.UUCP (John Romkey,The Asylum)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <6646@pdn.paradyne.com> dixon@gumby.paradyne.com (0000-Tom Dixon) writes:
>We have never tried this but have always wondered it. Can you use
>the packet driver with multiple TCP/IP applications?  Say for example
>NCSA Telnet and PC-NFS.  Or would the packet driver get really confused?

No. The packet driver was designed to allow multiple protocol stacks
to share a network interface, and to hide the hardware details of the
interface from the protocol stacks. It was NOT designed to allow
multiple instances of one protocol stack run on top of it. Aside from
demultiplexing problems, there are all sorts of IP worms you're opening
yourself up for if you try to run multiple IP stacks on one interface.
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