Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!sph From: sph@logitek.co.uk (Stephen Hope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.novell Subject: Re: Netware with Clarkson packet driver Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 16:43:06 GMT References: <23561@oolong.la.locus.com> Organization: Logitek Plc. Lines: 34 jbrown@locus.com (Jordan Brown) writes: >I'm trying to make a multi-protocol-stack setup work, and not having much >luck, so I'd like to chat with others who might have fought the same battles. >The general idea is to run Netware (2.15) over the Clarkson packet driver >using BYU's IPX.COM. I have two network cards I've been playing with - >3c501 and 3c505. The packet drivers are hot off the press, version 9. >The IPX.COM (actually PDSHELL.OBJ) is v2.01, from 04/89. I'm not >running any other network software, though of course that's the goal. >It all "plugs and goes", but pretty quickly grinds to a screeching halt >and hangs. Running a different IPX package (Hughes LAN Systems >ProLinc) on the same machine over the same network cards to the same >server works like a champ. >Is there a newer version of BYU's stuff? I dug around there with anonymous >FTP and didn't find anything newer. Are the 3c501 and 3c505 Clarkson >drivers just flakey? >Anyhow, if anybody's worked with the BYU stuff, especially with 3c501s >or 3c505s, I'd like to talk about it. >Tnx. I had lots of problems with a 3c505 on Version 7 / 8 packet drivers. The same thing happened with V9, until I tried setting the -d (no DMA) flag. This seems much better. The machine is a Wyse 3225 25MHz 386. Pity about not using the slave 80186 CPU on the 3c505 card tho. Stephen Hope #include