Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!jaytee!bodleian!geoff From: geoff@bodleian.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs Subject: Re: Clarkson Packet Drivers & PC-NFS ? Message-ID: <2951@jaytee.East.Sun.COM> Date: 17 Oct 90 13:02:48 GMT References: <1280@travis.csd.harris.com> Sender: news@jaytee.East.Sun.COM Reply-To: geoff@east.sun.com (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) Distribution: na Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering Lines: 34 Quoth nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) (in ): #In article <1280@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com writes: # # I picked up the Clarkson Packet Driver package for an application # that specifically uses them (WinQVT/net), and while reading TFM # (amazing concept !) a reference is made to a file @clarkson (which # of course I could not find) called: pcnfs.arc.Z (PC-NFS Packet # Driver support) # #Now renamed to compat.tar.Z or compat.zip (same contents, different #packaging). # # Which of course leads me to the question(s)... # 1) Is this special packet driver STILL necessary? #I don't know. Yes it is. And will be for the forseeable future. # 2) If so, where can I get it? #sun.soe.clarkson.edu:pub/ka9q/compat.... (as above) # 3) If not, is that because PC-NFS3.0.1 now "handles" the Packet Driver? #Oh, does it? Well, people with older versions still need it. No, PC-NFS does not "handle" the packet driver. PCNFS.SYS still implements a proprietary interface to MAC drivers. (It's called the LLDK interface, after our Link Level Driver Kit which many board vendors have used to build PC-NFS drivers.) The compatibility kit includes "glue" layers to allow PC-NFS to run over packet drivers or NDIS drivers. -- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM) -- *** "Now is no time to speculate or hypothecate, but rather a time *** *** for action, or at least not a time to rule it out, though not *** *** necessarily a time to rule it in, either." - George Bush ***