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From: ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet / DESQview
Message-ID: <203@cica.cica.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 01:38:52 GMT
References: <5170@sun.acs.udel.edu>
Organization: Center for Innov. Comp. Appl., Bloomington, IN
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The packed driver is designed to call packet handling
routines at specific address.  When you start telnet, telnet
configures the packet driver to jump to a specific memory address
when an IP packet comes in on the interface.  When using desqview
to multitask, there is no guaranty that telnet is swapped in when
the packet driver receive an IP packet.  If telnet isn't swapped
in that instant, the packet jumps to the code of another program
and usually hangs the computer.  The Novell driver (ipx.com) is
loaded before desqview and therefore is never swapped out.

     The only way to get a second program to run with telnet is
to get two ethernet cards.  One card for your novell connection
and one for telnet.  The packet driver for the telnet card should be loaded
within the same desqview window as telnet.


Steven Wallace
Indiana University
ssw@lavanix.bacs.indiana.edu
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