Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!prism!msd!cchapman From: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu (Chuck H. Chapman) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: PCNFS with packet drivers, and WNQVTNET Keywords: PCNFS, packet drivers, wnqvtnet Message-ID: Date: 4 Jun 91 14:13:04 GMT Article-I.D.: msd.cchapman.676044784 References: <1406@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Lines: 31 In <1406@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> craige@pegasus.cc.deakin.OZ.AU (Craige Hicks) writes: >Has anybody been able to run Sun PCNFS (using packet drivers) >with other software using packet drivers. >Using pktstat, it appears that pktd.sys for PCNFS is 'snaffling' all >incoming packets (using int 0x60) and not allowing packets to be passed >onto other applications with higher interrupts. >If NFS is not started the other application can run, but after NFS is >started the other application doesn't get any packets! >I am using PCNFS (3.5), pktd.sys (3.5), and WD8003E packet driver (9.0) >The other appliaction is a windows application: wnqvtnet I'm afraid that's just the way it works. The packet driver will only let one program at a time receive TCP/IP packets because apparently it has no way of knowing which program wanted which packets. I don't know why this is the case -- I know very little about how packet stuff works. Chuck -- Charles H. Chapman (GTRI/MATD) (404) 528-7588 Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ************************************************************** * Home of the 1990 National Champion Ga. Tech Yellow Jackets * ************************************************************** uucp: ...!{allegra,amd,hplabs,ut-ngp}!gatech!msd!cchapman Internet: cchapman@msd.gatech.edu