Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!virtue!hamish From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: PC/NFS and NCSA Telnet reprised Message-ID: <1324.26d51b97@waikato.ac.nz> Date: 24 Aug 90 00:20:38 GMT References: <1990Aug20.185329.8200@naitc.uucp> <999@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Lines: 44 In article , nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes: > In article <999@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> paik@lance.tis.llnl.gov (Yunki Paik) writes: > > In article ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) writes: > >The packet driver will NOT allow you to run PC-NFS and NCSA > >telnet at the same time. The packet driver doesn't support more > >that one application using the same ethernet type. There is a > > Ironical. The very reason for the packet driver is for sharing the > device through the common interface. I have not used packet driver > much, but I once used it with NCSA telnet all right. Again, I > don't know if PC-NFS is aware of the packet driver. If it is, then > they should coexist fine. > > Yes, your self-admitted ignorance shows. The packet driver is for sharing > the device with *different* protocols, not the *same* protocols. The only > way to run NCSA Telnet over PC-NFS is for NCSA Telnet to *use* PC-NFS. > That is, if you want to avoid booting. > > -- > --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? Hmmmm.... I'd better go back and try again. I could have sworn that I was running them both together just a couple of weeks ago, with no problems whatsoever. The reason was because poeple didn't like the NFS telnet so I told them to just use the NCSA one. It seemed to work Maybe mine is broken? :) -- ============================================================================== | Hamish Marson | Internet hamish@waikato.ac.nz | | Computer Support Person | Phone (071)562889 xt 8181 | | Computer Science Department | Amiga 3000 for ME! | | University of Waikato | | ============================================================================== |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the | | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers | | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) | ==============================================================================