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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: TCP/IP FTP
Message-ID: <17933@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Jan 91 21:44:03 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.153348.21189@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <17618@cbmvax.commodore.com> <27975.2795d933@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <27975.2795d933@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

I'll let most of this be answered (if they wish to) by the networking guys 
here.

>Another gripe about the Commodore Ethernet is you need a different card for
>each protocol run at the same time.  On a lowley **single-tasking** PC
>I can share an Ethernet card with several protocols via a packet driver
>which demuxes packets for different handles based on the DL layer type
>field (It can handle Type 2 or 802.e).  This a common supported PC
>standard.  The NCSA Telnet I am running is off of a Novell file
>server, and I can shell out to a LAT terminal from Telnet if I want
>to, etc.

	Commodore has presented a design for something called SANA (Standard
Amiga Network Architecture), which should address that issue and other higher-
level ones.  More information is available in the June 1990 devcon notes.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)