Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: TCP/IP software for EXOS 205T (Excelan) card Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 90 23:25:59 GMT Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 25 Hi. I'm trying to figure out the history of the software used to drive the Excelan EXOS 205T smart ethernet card. I have in hand manuals for a version 3.2.5 of the software dated roughly June of 1987. It refers to itself is "EXOS 8051-02 TCP/IP Network Software". I also have in hand the manual for a different product which specifies that it needs to use the same EXOS 205T board but with driver software whose manual is "Using the LAN Workplace for DOS". I suspect that this "LAN Workplace" is just a new name for a later version of the EXOS software, but there appear to be enough differences between the two that stuff isn't working right. When did the name mutate? What's in the newer software that the old one didn't have? (Subnet support, at least, I would hope.) --Ed p.s. Calling Excelan support is real fun. First of all, they are now part of Novell, so when you ask for the Excelan # at 1-800-555-1212, you get the Lanalyzer part of Novell. A miss on one of the other menus (compatibility questions) lands you at a "call cannot be completed as dialed message.