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From: gs940971@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Glen U. Sunada)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Banyan and Interlan cards???
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Date: 30 Apr 91 09:49:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.125622.20331@ugle.unit.no>
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In article <1991Apr24.125622.20331@ugle.unit.no> heidnes@spurv.runit.sintef.no (Hans Eidnes) writes:
>In our Banyan based LAN we have some severe problems.  Some of the 
>workstations (PS/2's and XT's) can not be used with Banyan drivers due to 
    ... stuff deleted ...
>My questions are:
>1. Do anybody have any experience with Banyan and these cards in an 
>   environment with heavy traffic?
	1. The  NI5210 has given me problems running in a 20 MHz 386 -
		The 386 is my server and would ocasionally hang under heavy
		traffic.  Fixed by switching to a WD ELITE/EPR+ (8013+)

	2. Make sure that the I/O port, shared memory address AND INTERRUPT
		are set properly.  NCSA Telnet does NOT use the interrupt
		BANYAN does.  If ANY of the three are set wrong BANYAN hangs
		run the BANYAN dig5210 and dig9210 to check.

>2. Is our version of drivers "out of date"? (Have Banyan made a patch that
>   has not reached us?)
	The latest patches I know of are 2 for general servers
				2nnn for TCP/IP routing servers
				2yyg for TCP/IP routing servers

>3. Is it possible to run Banyan software on top of a packet driver?
>   (Please describe.)
	I have heard that it is possible to run BANYAN with the NDIS
	drivers.  Howerver, it seems that it will not run with PCTCP
	and may not run with  any telnet/ftp package

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