Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: BITNET mail follows Message-ID: Date: 9 Aug 90 02:36:26 GMT References: <9008082048.aa21592@louie.udel.edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 29 In-reply-to: robel2@MYTHOS.UCS.INDIANA.EDU's message of 9 Aug 90 00:44:22 GMT In article <9008082048.aa21592@louie.udel.edu> robel2@MYTHOS.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Allen Robel) writes: 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 ... They have chosen to roll their own packet drivers. On the other hand, their packet drivers are supported, whereas the Clarkson collection of drivers are unsupported. 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!!) Yes, that's OK with me. In fact, please tell *every* manufacturer of Ethernet cards that they can get a driver written "just" by donating the hardware to Clarkson (and get a tax write-off, too). If packet drivers are important to you, then you need to let the hardware manufacturers know about them. Many are totally ignorant about them. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 We won the cold war. The Russians spent trillions defending their stuff, then they found that they didn't have any stuff. Will we avoid the same trap?