Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!trantor!mwills From: mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: packet driver for banyan and ncsa telnet (was: for ncsa telnet) Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 00:03:09 GMT Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Organization: Harris Gov't Aerospace Systems Division Lines: 57 Thanks to Russ Nelson for his reply. I am posting it because I feel it is informative and it raises another question. I asked: - Is there a packet driver which will allow NCSA telnet to work with Banyan Vines? Presently, I must reboot without loading the banyan software in order to use NCSA telnet. Russ answered: Rather, what you want to know is, can Banyan Vines use a packet driver. The answer (as far as I know) is no. I can suppress loading of the banyan network driver with "ban /nc /nl". Then TSRs "intr2ban", "redir3 /h /e", and "tsr2a" cause the banyan driver(s?) to be loaded into extended memory instead of low memory. Are there variations here that would allow me to load an alternate packet driver which is compatible with NCSA telnet? Could someone describe the function of a redirector (e.g. redir3) in contrast to a packet driver? How are intr2ban and tsr2a related? PC/TCP has a driver called ebanyan.exe which must loaded after the banyan software but before their TCP applications will work. How do they handle this problem? - How does one use alternate packet drivers (e.g. the w3pktdr2.zip drivers modified for windows 3.0, found at ncsa's ftp site). Those packet drivers are old, and they don't *really* "work" under windows 3.0. What they *do* do is not crash, which isn't exactly the same thing. :) Are they TSRs which must be loaded before the application program? Yes. If so, will a program like NCSA telnet, which seems to have built-in drivers, work properly with them? If you select hardware=packet, yes. --russ I'm proud to be a humble Quaker. 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. Thanks again, Scott -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- M. Scott Wills internet: mwills@rhino.ess.harris.com Mail Stop 102-4828 uucp: uunet!x102a!mwills Harris Corporation voice: 407-729-3283 Government Aerospace Systems Division fax: 407-729-3211 P.O. Box 94000 Melbourne, FL 32902 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------