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From: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TCP/Novell gateway (actually: IP/NetBios gateway)
Message-ID: <501@kaos.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 88 09:19:01 GMT
References: <5148X@utah-cs.UUCP> <3695@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: romkey@kaos.UUCP (John Romkey)
Organization: Chaos; Somerville, MA
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In article <3695@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> amit@umn-cs.UUCP (Neta Amit) writes:
>Like many others, we base our code on MIT's/CMU's Pcip package -- with
>substantial mods. Two questions to Netlanders:
>- where can we find pcip-FTP sources? Our outdated version doesn't
>  include it.

FTP was never included as a part of either the MIT or CMU PC/IP. There
haven't been any major changes to the public domain code for several
years. The last major changes that I can remember were SLIP being added to
the CMU release, and I can't even remember if that really happened or if
my memory is playing tricks on me.

Stanford and the commercial sellers of PC/IP-based software (FTP Software,
Wollongong, IBM) have added FTP to PC/IP.

>- 3Com's Etherlink card is expensive and slow -- but supported by pcip.
>  We'd like to hear about availability of drivers for more modern cards,
>  particulary WD. Alternatively, we're thinking about modifying one of the
>  existing public domain drivers. It doesn't look too bad; is it ?

Newer cards like the Western Digital WD8003 and Micom-Interlan NI5210
run much faster than the 3C501 *and* tend to be lower priced. It won't
be too easy to modify the old 3C501 driver to work with these cards,
though, as the ethernet controller chips on the cards are completely
different from the 3C501's. I don't know of any public domain drivers,
but often the manufacturers have a simple driver they can supply you
with.
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			- john romkey
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