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From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, PC LAN, and token ring
Message-ID: <3206@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 20:30:16 GMT
References: <BD013E60A0000D82@ducvax.auburn.edu> <1991Feb5.182711.18532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
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In article <1991Feb5.182711.18532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
>
>Well, We have a similar setup, and we use an *old* version of IBM's tcp/ip
>suite for DOS.  Now, the local IBM rep is recommending the UMaryland suite
>-- they say they even use it.  The FTP system is supposed to work, as well, but
>I have never tried it.  
>
>Also, if you have IBM PCATs, you can use the Clarkson packet drivers in tandem 
>with the DOS LAN Requestor portion of LAN Server.  However, we have found that
>the packet drivers do not work in tandem when used on PS/2s, nor on our PCs
>with accererator adapters.  (For some strange reason...)

That's kinda strange.  For a time, we were using the router portion of IBM's
TCP/IP suite for OS/2 to route TCP/IP traffic between the local token ring and
the campus ethernet.  The router was running on a PS/2 Model 80 along with the
OS/2 LAN Server software, and the workstations were all PS/2 Model 55SXs, run-
ning the DOS LAN Requester for the OS/2 LAN Server.

For client software, we were all using Clarkson University TCP (their custom-
modified version of NCSA Telnet, highly recommended if all you want is Telnet
and FTP) along with the IBMTOKEN packet driver.

The combination worked just great.  Just make sure that you invoke the packet
driver *before* invoking the "NET START" command for the DOS LAN Requester.
Otherwise, the packet driver won't like the fact that the DLR opened the TR
adapter before it did.

>
>As for the OS/2 machine(s), IBM & FTP sell tcp/ip suites for OS/2 -- we haven't
>tried either.

See above.

>
>>Larry Owen                           Bitnet:   owen@auducvax
>>Campus Network Administrator         Internet: owen@ducvax.auburn.edu
>>Auburn University                    Phone:    (205) 844-4110
>
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>	Don Meyer		internet:	dlmeyer@uiuc.edu
>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin 1759

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