Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!perl From: perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: PC-NFS & UB's NIU Board (again!) Keywords: UB NIU PC-NFS Message-ID: <1990Jul19.023437.10982@PacBell.COM> Date: 19 Jul 90 02:34:37 GMT References: Sender: news@PacBell.COM Organization: Pacific Bell - Financial Management Lines: 20 According to the PC-NFS manual (3.1 or whatever is current) the UB NIU board is supported with "special software" available from Ungermann-Bass. According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50) that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board. But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install PC-NFS for the NIC. UB says I need to get some "special driver" from SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC. And, this is the best part,... they've never tested it!! But, says UB, "it probably works" because they wrote it to SUN's specs. Anyway does anyone out there know what's really going on. Geoff?? Richard -- "The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but it is queerer than we can imagine." J.B.S. Haldane -- Richard Perlman |*| perl@pbseps.pacbell.com |*| (415) 545-0233