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From: DKAZEM@NAS.BITNET (Don Kazem)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: broadband adapters
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Date: 14 May 91 20:34:00 GMT
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IBM used to sell a broadband "PCNet" card. You might have to experiment
to find out what you could run over it, though. I heard, once, that
someone had managed to run PC/TCP over it, with some IBM driver, but
we've never tried it. Maybe IBM can tell you more.


Frances Kirk Selkirk?? info@ftp.com?           (617) 246-0900
FTP Software, Inc.?? 26 Princess Street, Wakefield, MA  01880

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Our oldest network still uses those hideous cards.  Sytek
which is now called Hughes manufactured them for IBM.
Hughes has a TCP/IP product called PROLINC that runs on
some of those cards but not on all versions. It only supports
a model called IBM PC NET II (it has more memory than
the regular PC NET cards). PC NET II is actually shorter than
the regular cards.

Since the LAN operating system here is Novell, I have been
able to run the WIN/TCP (from Wollongong) on those cards
and it works fine. Although, I must say that since this
approach uses the IPX transport layer, the IP packets are
encapsulated in IPX packets and I have had to dedicate a
machine that runs another program from Wollongong that
unwraps the IPX packets and extracts the IP ones out before
they are sent to the IP router.

By the way, IBM directs all inquiries about PC NET cards to
Hughes.


I am very interested in any other drivers that would allow
running PC/TCP on PC NET cards.

Hope this helps.

DKAZEM@NAS
F.D.Kazem-Zadeh
National Academy of Sciences
Washington DC