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From: feb@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM (Frank Bien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.windows.ms
Subject: help with packet drivers, please
Keywords: HELP
Message-ID: <1991May22.171543.1404@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM>
Date: 22 May 91 17:15:43 GMT
Reply-To: feb@gumby.dsd.trw.com (Frank Bien)
Organization: TRW Space and Defense Sector
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I recently picked up a copy of DIS_PKT.DOS from usu via
anon ftp. It looks like something which can solve (at least in 
part) my problems. I could use some advise. 

I have a Zenith 286 machine (3 mb RAM) windows 3.0, etc.

I am trying to run a variety of networking programs over a single 
Western Digital Ethernet Card (WD8003e), but am having little luck 
running them all without rebooting when I change between them.

Running (or at least trying to):
	NCSA Telnet 2.3 beta something
		-- uses its own internal packet drivers
	qvtnet (new May 91 version) which may replace ncsa_telnet
		-- uses clarkson packet driver
	XVISION X-windows for windows
		-- uses FTP Software packet driver
	FTP Software -- use some of their utils, but no TNVT or FTP
		-- uses FTP Sofware drivers
	IBM's pc local area network (v1.3)
		-- uses Western Digital's netbios driver

The object is to have a package to log into various hosts 
(XWindows), a package to use when I don't want to wait for 
XWindows on my slow pc and to FTP back to my pc (qvtnet or 
ncsa_telnet), and a package to network 5 or 6 pc's together 
(preferably each as servers) -- IBM's LAN package (hey, it was 
free -- we had several extra packages).

Right now, I start my machine and default to the clarkson packet 
drivers so I can run qvtnet.  If I want to run XWindows or IBM LAN 
i have to modify the config.sys and autoexec, shutting of the old 
driver and turning on the new, and then reboot (what a pain in the 
ass).  

Any advise or assistance on how to run these packages in "peace 
and harmony" would be greatly appreciated.  I couldn't get dis_pkt 
to work, will it do what I want?  If so what would the config.sys 
and protocol.ini look like?

thanks for any help,

Frank Bien
feb@gumby.dsd.trw.com
(213) 812-5072
e-mail please