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From: robel2@MYTHOS.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Allen Robel)
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>Can someone tell me about the Ethernet cards sold by David Systems
>and Cabletron?  Both vendors just gave us a few Ethernet/10Base-T
>cards to try, but we were told we would have to acquire our own
>drivers if we wanted to play with TCP/IP.  Are there Clarkson
>drivers for these cards?  Are they supported by FTP Software's
>PC/IP?  Has anyone had experience with the cards?  Any information

I have tried Cabletron's cards and they worked just fine for me
(packet drivers and all).  My concern with these is that the
source code is not available for their driver which means that
the folks at Clarkson and elsewhere cannot add new features as
needed (e.g. Windows 3.0 support, support for Blue Book and 802.3
packets, etc.)

DAVID Systems has told me that they will have a driver soon.  I
talked with our sales rep and mentioned that they could probably
get one written for the cost of a couple cards (sent to 

Clarkson's Russ Nelson).  They were *real* receptive to this
and I would expect Russ to be hearing from them soon (hope that's
OK with you Russ!!)

regards,

Allen Robel                               robel2@mythos.ucs.indiana.edu 

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