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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Novell Ethernet card running PC-NFS
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Date: 29 Jun 90 11:24:34 GMT
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Quoth marty@puppsrPrinceton.EDU (Marty Ryba) (in <994@idunno.Princeton.EDU>):
#Is there a working packet driver interface for PC-NFS???  I've tried the
#packet drivers in drivers.arc on sun.soe.clarkson.edu along with pktd.sys
#with both a 3c501 and a WD8003E card.  PC-NFS does not seem to be receiving
#any packets when it starts up.  I'd like to get this working since the telnet
#with PC-NFS sucks eggs, and the NFS-A version of CUTE I have seems to have
#some annoying bugs that crash the system periodically.  I'm not sure who/what
#to blame, but I feel that packet driver is the natural answer.

There was a problem with one version of the pktd.sys driver which I
posted to Clarkson, and I've recently posted a new copy - I haven't had
a chance to see if Russ has put it up yet.  The new one is part of the
"PC-NFS compatibility kit" which includes both Packet and NDIS
drivers.

The packet driver is not an answer to the problem of running a packet
driver version of CUTE with PC-NFS though. As has been tossed around
several times in this group, it is pretty much impossible to run two
TCP/IP stacks in the same system - who do you deliver ARP or ICMP
traffic to, for example? PKTD.SYS has to grab all IP and ARP/RARP
packets, so you couldn't run a packet driver version of CUTE with it.

The real answer is to fix the bugs in the PC-NFS version of CUTE.
Stay tuned.

Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)
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