Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!netcom!jbreeden From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Message-ID: <12486@netcom.UUCP> Date: 21 Jul 90 02:42:26 GMT References: <1990Jul19.164254.29758@PacBell.COM> Organization: NetCom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 35 In article <1990Jul19.164254.29758@PacBell.COM> perl@PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) writes: >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?? > UB "sort-of" gave you the answer (strike another blow for customer service! :-) UB has an NDIS driver for the NIU card (and they are the only vendor I know of that has the guts to acually charge for it!) Geoff wrote both Packet Driver and NDIS driver interfaces for PC-NFS (I think you can get them off of sun.soe.clarkson - it's called NFS-KIT). The combo will allow PC-NFS to run on the NIU (if UB did their homework right). BTW: AT&T has an NDIS driver for the NIC (they used to re-sell the MC/NIC). -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."