Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: Lantastic <--> TCP/IP Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 07:38:00 GMT References: <1990Dec13.170316.29748@groucho> Sender: @grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: edwards@groucho's message of 13 Dec 90 17:03:16 GMT In article <1990Dec13.170316.29748@groucho> edwards@groucho writes: "So Dan," my Chairman asks casually, "why don't we hook up the student PC network (7 PC clones running Lantastic 3.0 on Western Digital ethernet cards) to your system (HP-UNIX 9000/350 running TCP/IP into a Proteon gateway) and give the students Internet access?" "I'll even throw in a couple of hundred bucks to help make it happen." he generously adds. "Sure thing", I reply. (He is the Chairman.) How can I possibly accomplish this? I don't know much about networking. Do I need hardware, or software, or is it hopeless? All the students on the network need (besides their usual Lantastic functions) is telnet and ftp. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. The best solution to your problem is to ask Artisoft to support the packet driver specification. That should be fairly easy for them to do if they provide support for multiple Ethernet cards -- the packet driver client would appear as just another Ethernet "card". With a packet driver Lantastic, you could run it and TCP/IP at the same time. There are quite a few TCP/IP packages that run over the packet driver, both commercial and free. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) FAX 315-268-7600 It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear -- Freeman Dyson I joined the League for Programming Freedom, and I hope you'll join too.