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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: 3COM 3C501 ethernet driver for V/386
Message-ID: <1773@spdcc.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 88 23:53:16 GMT
References: <1300@sun.soe>
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1300@sun.soe> ken@sun.soe (Ken) writes:
>Does anyone have an ethernet driver for a 3COM 3C501 that they could
>send me?  Also, a question - will I have to get additional TCP/IP
>software in order to be able to talk to the outside world on the
>Internet?  If so, where can I get it?

Ethernet cards are getting to be a dime a dozen.  TCP/IP implementations
are another story.  An ethernet card is only about 5% of the solution.

I have had VERY good luck with a TCP/IP product integrated into Bell Tech's
V/386 product produced by a company called "Streamlined Networks."  It's
essentially a packaging of the 4.3BSD TCP/IP package, with incoming and
outgoing r-commands, telnet and ftp.  It worked perfectly out of the box(!)
on MIT's subnetted LAN, and I can get anythere in the Internet with it
without problems.  It uses a Bell-Tech modified Western Digital board, but
it may be that Streamlined Networks has versions for other boards.  I don't
know whether or not they have a Microport V/386 product, but I would be
surprised if they didn't, given its similarity to Bell Tech V/386.
Streamlined Networks' VP, Lance Norskog, can be reached at
pacbell!belltech!lance.

My copy doesn't, at present, have SMTP support, and I haven't tried
to port sendmail to it, since I get mail on another machine.  I'd be
surprised if it was too hard to port, however.  I don't know whether
SNs has addressed this or not, since I haven't been in touch with
them lately.
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Steve Dyer
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