Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!meyer From: meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: TCP/IP, PC LAN, and token ring Message-ID: <1991Feb6.161521.25372@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 6 Feb 91 16:15:21 GMT References: <1991Feb5.182711.18532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <3206@ux.acs.umn.edu> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 28 spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes: >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. We have PS/2 model 50s & 80s, and its the DLR that doesn't like the fact that the packet driver opens the TR driver before it does. (What we get is a report of a NETBIOS ERROR.) The PCs we have, with Microsoft Mach20 accelerator boards, simply lock up on packet driver initialization. >-D. Robert Spexet II, Post Office Box 14909, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414-0909 > Internet: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu > BITNET: spexet@umnacux.BITNET > UUCP: rutgers!umn-cs!ux.acs.umn.edu!spexet +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 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