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From: jbvb@FTP.COM ("James B. Van Bokkelen")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: client/server database PC<->Unix via packetdrivers?
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Date: 13 May 91 13:11:05 GMT
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    do any of the mainstream databases (Oracle, Informix, etc...) have a
    packet driver version of their PC based UI's?

Several of them have UIs that use one of the commercial TSR-based TCP/IP
packages to provide transport services; most of these are available in
versions that use the Packet Driver instead of built-in board-specific
drivers.  It is unlikely that the database would talk directly to the
Packet Driver since then they'd have to include the whole TCP/IP stack in
their product (a non-trivial development effort).  This of course has the
problem that the Packet Drivers, like NDIS or ODI, only assume one
implementation of a given protocol (e.g. TCP/IP or XNS) will be active at
a time, so you couldn't use the database UI at the same time as NCSA or
one of the other free packages.
    
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