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From: cws@FTP.COM (Cris Shuldiner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: AE-2 packet driver available?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 13:18:32 GMT
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    Anybody out there have or know about a Clarkson-compatible packet driver
    for the Artisoft AE-2 ethernet card running in its native mode (the card
    can also emulate an NE-2000)?  Artisoft doesn't seem interested in
    supplying the info we need to "roll our own" and we can't run the card
    in NE-2000 mode because it won't work with Lantastic that way.
    
    Steve Bour
    University of Arkansas at Little Rock -- Computing Services
    JSBOUR@UALR (BITNET)

Steve,

I don't know of any AE-2 packet driver, but is there any reason that you
need to run Lantastic over the card directly?  Artisoft has a version that
is independaent of the adaptor (ie: it runs over any netbios).  This version
is 3.2 /AI (although there may be later versions by now).  We have tested it
out over our RFC 1001/1002 netbios, but it should run over anybody's
netbios. 

Using this setup, you would be able to run the card in NE-2000 mode with the
Clarkson Driver.  The only caveat is that every node that wished to run
Lantastic would have to be running it over netbios over TCP/IP.

Also, have you checked with Artisoft about not being able to run Lantastic
over that car din NE-2000 mode?  I had thought it was capable of that.

Cris Shuldiner						Technical Support
cws@ftp.com						FTP Software, Inc.
Ph: (617) 246-2920					Fax: (617) 245-7943
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