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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Re. Wollongong TCP/IP
Summary: please clarify
Message-ID: <4360@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 01:25:50 GMT
References: <9005182006.AA00073@dragon.twg.com> <3362@auspex.auspex.com> <539@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
Organization: INFORMIX Professional Services ("Peace thru Normalization")
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In article <539@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> syackey@secola.UUCP (steve yackey) writes:
>>So AT&T threw out the Lachman-based one they supply standard with S5R4
>>and supply a Woolongong-based release instead?
>
>no, when you buy 5.4 you get lachman tcp.
>when you buy a 6386, you get wollongong. for the 6386 at&t "upgraded" the tcp.

Uh, the 6386 definitely does not come with WIN/TCP automatically.  It
is an *option*, as is the Interlan solution.  You can get either
WIN/TCP 3.0 for StarLAN cards or a Racal Interlan s/w-card combo.

Note that AT&T's version of WIN/TCP is still 3.0.  Wollongong sells
3.1 themselves as the current release, and they include drivers for
a number of common ethernet cards (AT&T strips those out).  On my
6386s, I'm running Wollongong's own 3.1 version on WD cards because I have
to use interrupt 2 (=9), and WIN/TCP 3.0 doesn't handle that interrupt
properly...

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