Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!tcheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu From: Tony C. Cheng Subject: RE: NCSAT vs. AT&T Lan Manager Message-ID: <1991May30.194544.26351@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: Organization: Indiana University Date: Thu, 30 May 91 19:45:44 GMT Lines: 54 Several kind netters had sent me mails or posted comments concerning my question. Following is a mail from John at netcom.com which has the exact infomation I wanted to know. John, the mail I sent to netcom.com for you were all bounced back. I think you wouldn't mind my posting your mail here. I checked cica.cica.indiana.edu for dis_pkt.dos, but couldn't find anything like that. They might have purged it. I also looked into Clarkson's machine for that file, neither could I find it there. If there is one, it could be packed inside a certain file. Anyway, if you know any other place where I can find it, please send me mail again or post a note here. I really look forward to the implementation of NCSAT on our AT&T Lan Manager network. Thanks./_Tony ............. Educ. Tech. Services Indiana University ------------------------------------------------------ >You need to get the Packet Driver to NDIS driver adapter (dis_pkt.dos. It's >on your own machine over there (cica.cica.indiana.edu). You will use this >instead of the clarkson packet driver. What you want to do is have Lan Man- >ager and NDIS talking to the same NDIS MAC driver. You will have Lan Man >talking to the NDIS MAC driver and NCSA will be talking to dis_pkt.dos >which will then be talking to the NDIS MAC driver. > >If you get dis_pkt.dos from cica, it'll have a doc file with it that'll >explain how to configure dis_pkt and StarGROUP. When dis_pkt is installed and >running, it looks just like a packet driver to NCSA. > >If you need anymore help, let me know (I'm assuming that the dis_pkt doc >will get you there). > >BTW: Netbind is the NDIS program that "binds" the different protocol drivers >together into a single stack (in your case the NDIS MAC driver, StarGROUP's >OSI driver and dis_pkt.dos). It's run when you do a ATTSTART. The first thing >ATTSTART does is a netbind (if you look at LANMAN.INI in \lanman.dos, you'll >see the NETBIND command at the bottom of the file). > >-- > John Robert Breeden, > jbreeden@netcom.com, apple!netcom!jbreeden, ATTMAIL:!jbreeden > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose > from. If you don't like any of them, you just wait for next year's > model."