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From: reynolds@milton.u.washington.edu (Michael Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: MS Windows 3.0 compatible packet driver
Summary: 3c503 packet driver compatible with MS Windows
Keywords: 3c503 packet driver Windows telnet ftp
Message-ID: <5054@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 21:46:31 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Hey, has anyone found any solutions for my problem?  Our campus uses NCSA
Telnet and Clarkston 3c503.com drivers for Etherlink II cards on Zenith
386s.  I use MS Windows 3.0 and want to
be able to keep an ftp session going at the same time as my telnet.  It
seems to me that I'll at least need a 3c503 packet driver that I can load
before Windows, so that all my DOS sessions have access to it.  Steve
Wallace at Indiana Univ (wallaces@ucs.indiana.edu) has made one that does
that, but it still won't let
more than one program access it at a time.  Is this wanting too much?  I
became hopeful when I heard about the code that people came up with to
allow Novell and Telnet to share the packet driver.  Would it be possible
(has it been done?) to do the same thing with ftp and telnet sharing the
packet driver?  Have I got my concepts all wrong (I'm totally novice at
packet driver programming)?  What would really be nice is a Windows-
specific Telnet that spawns new sessions in their own Windows, or better
yet lets two or more copies share the packet driver.

I know this isn't Windows-specific for Windows newsgroup, but along the
same lines, I would also like to be able to use NetBios with my
Ethernet card at the same time to communicate with a LANtastic network.
Artisoft tells me that I need a full implementation of a reentrant NetBios.
I've found one company (Performance Technologies, 918-663-9907) that can
sell me a re-entrant NetBios that doesn't use packet driver, and FTP
Software, who can sell me a NetBios for packet driver that isn't reentrant.
Does anybody know if someone has written/is working on such a program?  Is
this even possible?

Thanks for any help.  I'll post a summary of replies if there's interest.

Mike Reynolds
Libraries Computer Operations
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
reynolds@milton.u.washington.edu