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From: erick@sunee.waterloo.edu (Erick Engelke)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Packet Driver for PRONET
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.173258.26232@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Date: 31 Oct 90 17:32:58 GMT
References: <9010301647.AA01687@ftp.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
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In article <9010301647.AA01687@ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
>>
>>    Does anyone know the whereabouts of a packet driver that would let me run
>>    TCPIP over PRONET with Proteon's cards??
>>
>To my knowlege, there have never been any Class 2 (ProNET-10) packet drivers.
>Given that at least PC-IP and NCSA support the basic packet formats, it
>wouldn't be hard to do one, but you'd probably want Netware support too...
>

We run a big proNET 10 system with about 20 interconnected token rings.
We found the most useful solution was to make a packet driver which
fully emulates the Ethernet card.  Other than multicasts, this is actually
quite easy.  This allows us to use PC-IP, NCSA, etc. in the mode they were
written and tested in-Ethernet mode.  Unfortunately, our driver must also
handle our local routing, network card demultiplexing, etc., so it is
not particularly useful for you.  If you are interested in doing the 
work yourself, I could mail you some tips.

Erick
Network Systems Manager
Faculty of Engineering
University of Waterloo