Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!pacbell.com!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!netcom!jbreeden From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: What is NDIS? Message-ID: <20513@netcom.UUCP> Date: 10 Jan 91 15:55:07 GMT References: <1991Jan9.233040.13698@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 34 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) writes: > >Therefore, you need packet drivers. As far as I know, none of the free >TCP/IP software, nor Novell use NDIS drivers. > Russ is right, BUT FTP's dis_pkt (packet-driver-to-NDIS-driver adapter) will allow SOME packet driver software (KA9Q, NCSA, CUTCP, PC/TCP) to run on an NDIS driver (dis_pkt makes an NDIS MAC driver "look" like a packet driver). (It's available on ftp.vax.com and I think Russ' machine). Netware (BYU) will NOT run on dis_pkt, therefore there is no free software out there that will allow Netware to run on an NDIS driver. So if you want to run Lan Manager (ie: AT&T StarGroup, 3Com 3+ Open, DEC Lan Works etc) AND tcp-ip (using freeware), use a packet driver tcp-ip and FTP's dis_pkt. There are two commercial software packages out there (and could be more) that supply Novell drivers with NDIS interfaces. Hughes Lan Systems' Prolinc (which also includes a WORKING NDIS driver for Vines and a full copy of PC/TCP) and Walker Richer and Quinn's Reflections. If you need to run Lan Manager AND Novell (and/or Vines), these will do it. The down side is they cost $$s (and you don't get source). I thought ODI was a dog :-) (Garfy's friend). -- John Robert Breeden, netcom!jbreeden@apple.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden ------------------------------------------------------------------- "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's model."