Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!clarkson!grape.ecs.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: CMU PCIP, SOS, and packet drivers: A Sad Story Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 14:28:15 GMT References: Sender: usenet@grape.ecs.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET) Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu's message of 22 Mar 91 05:17:50 GMT In article fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) writes: I just recently got Clarkson's packet drivers and CUTCP running perfectly over a SLIP line to the local netwrok here. So I loaded NETDEV.SYS, loaded my packet driver, SLIP8250.COM, and tried ping. All I got back was an error message entitled, "Packet driver not loaded". Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Sigh. PCIP doesn't support SLIP (type 6) packet drivers. There is no reason in principle why it can't, it's just that the packet driver client code to handle SLIP isn't there. Perhaps you'd like to add it? It should be just a matter of grokking the existing slip and packet driver code, and bashing them together. It should be really easy because the packet driver takes care of all the packetization. It's just a matter of telling PCIP that you've got a raw IP packet. -- --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.