Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!barryf From: barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: answers to commonly asked questions periodic posting Message-ID: <2S%=LD_@rpi.edu> Date: 14 Mar 91 20:36:43 GMT References: <9103081022.AA08463@asylum.sf.ca.us> <9103100326.AA13175@TIS.COM> <1991Mar14.161250.10375@mcs.anl.gov> Lines: 54 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans) writes: >In article <9103100326.AA13175@TIS.COM> James M Galvin writes: >> >> Does anyone have any serious problems with me setting up a periodic >> post to the list that answers questions that come up often? >> >>As maintainer of the list, let me encourage you to do this. I think it is a >>great idea. >> >>Jim >Please let me start the question list: >1) Exactly what is a packet driver? >2) What is the relationship b/w the packet driver(s) and the DOS application? >3) What are the common packet driver package names & sources/prices/etc... >4) What is PC/IP and how does it interact w/the other stuff like packet > drivers (if it does at all?) >5) What do I need in order to open sockets from a DOS Application to a host > capable of dealing with them (like a Sun or RS-6000)? >6) Is there any TLI oriented stuff out there (yet)? >--John >-- >! John Winans Advanced Computing Research Facility ! >! winans@mcs.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois ! >! ! >!"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away"-- Tom Waits ! 7) What is NDIS and NDIS to Packet Converter? Why should I know? 8) What TCP/IP products/services are available for a PC and what do they do? (e.g. FTP, Telnet, NFS, RPC, NNTP, POP, etc.) 9) Where can I find public domain and/or shareware TCP/IP utilities; via FTP; via e-mail? 10) What other discussion groups besides this one focus on TCP/IP and related topics? USENET? barry -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Barry B. Floyd \\\ barry_floyd@mts.rpi.edu | | Manager Information Systems - HR \\\ usere9w9@rpitsmts | +-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--------------------troy, ny 12180-+