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From: fks@FTP.COM (Frances Selkirk)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re:  BW-NFS, working with Packet Drivers and other software.
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Date: 8 Apr 91 16:32:59 GMT
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Stu Donaldson <fluke!gtisqr!stu@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
	
> We recently purchased a copy of BW-NFS for evaluation.  I am having
> problems getting this to work with other programs that want to talk
> to the network board.  I am useing a WD8003E card, and have also
> tried the 8.7 version packet driver.  The other software I am trying
> to run, is NCSA_Telnet, and it's related programs.  I also plan on
> running some Email software in the future.
> 
> Does anyone know how this can be done short of porting the
> other applications to use the socket library available from Beame
> and Whiteside?
	
Hello, everybody. This is your monthly post, saying:


("YOU CAN ONLY RUN ONE TCP/IP STACK AT A TIME OVER A PACKET DRIVER.") 


Packet drivers sort packets by protocol type. They do not duplicate
packets for delivery to two stacks of the same type. The first stack 
will get the packets; the second stack will starve. 

If you wish to run other TCP/IP apps simultaneously with BW-NFS (or any
other TCP/IP package), port them to the programmers' interface. Better
yet, if possible, find a single package that satisfies your needs for 
telnet, email and NFS.

(Apologies to Arlo Guthrie for the format of the second sentence.)

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