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From: a0045@BERRY.RRZ.UNI-KOELN.DE (Jochen Roderburg)
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Subject: NDIS - packet converter
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Date: 11 Sep 90 12:10:16 GMT
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Just like to share some new test results with the net:

Release 1.05 of the NDIS-Packet converter from FTP software (dated
August 1st, 1990) and the latest beta test release 2.3b10 from NCSA now
work together. This applies to the NCSA programs themselves (telnet and
ftp) and also to the included lpr/lpq package.
NCSA can now also use RARP with packet drivers.

PCPOP, another package which uses the NCSA TCPIP code, does not yet seem
to use the b10 code, although NCSA b10 is included in their latest
package. But both solved problems are still in their program.

I also observed the problem with a NDIS driver echoing back ARP
broadcasts to the sender, but only with the Western Digital NDIS driver.
Several 3COM drivers don't show that behaviour.

Btw, when I recently looked into FTP Software's ftp-archive at
vax.ftp.com, I found the NDIS-packet driver in pub/packet.driver.old,
and not in pub/packet.driver. The latter directory contained only the
latest packet driver collection v7 from Clarkson university.
Bug or feature ... :-) ?

Jochen Roderburg
Regional Computing Center
University of Cologne
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