Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Better UB Ethernet software? Message-ID: Date: 12 Aug 90 20:27:15 GMT References: <12466@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 26 In-reply-to: ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU's message of 12 Aug 90 19:02:04 GMT In article <12466@hydra.gatech.EDU> ce1zzes@prism.gatech.EDU (Eric Sheppard) writes: My department seems to be teetering on the brink of disaster. Six months ago we were encouraged to purchase Ungermann-Bass ethernet cards for PCs and PS/2s. NIU or NIC? Other areas of interest: Could the server's card be replaced with a non-UB card, new network software installed, and have the UB-based PCs use its services? In this manner, we could make the network more flexible and useful. Perhaps, but it will take some work on your part. You could use packet drivers and install a Novell or PC-NFS network. There already exists a packet driver for the UB NIC/PC. You could write a packet driver for the PS/2 machines. Then, not only could you run Novell, but you could also run TCP/IP at the same time on the same machines. If the UB software also used the packet drivers, you could also use *their* software at the same time, too. -- --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?