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From: jbvb@FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Packet drivers for Proteon Pronet-10
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Date: 16 Apr 91 18:09:01 GMT
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    Proteon is working on NDIS drivers for their cards....

I am guessing here, but I suspect that these NDIS drivers are actually for
their 802.5-compatible interfaces.  NDIS does not attempt to hide the
characteristics of the LAN media from the protocol stack, and the spec
recommends that driver developers who have something which isn't 802.3 or
802.5 (and ProNET-10 certainly isn't) make it look like one or the other
(presumably so that LAN Manager only has to understand those two media).
You could do a ProNET-10 NDIS driver that understood the differences between
IP-over-Ether and IP-over-Pro10 and translated, but I don't think they have...

    Also I believe Proteon supports the ASI interface.

Only on 802.5-compatible interfaces.

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