Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!zofka
From: zofka@cernvax.UUCP (zofka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: AMERISTAR ETHERNET Board
Message-ID: <846@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 12:09:39 GMT
Reply-To: zofka@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Hi Folks,

Some questions about Ameristar Ethernet Board...

I have now for one month the Ameristar Ethernet board for my
Amiga 2000 and it works fine. BUT. Currently there is only a client side
implementation of FTP TFTP and NFS and Telnet emulates only VT100.

My questions are:

Does anybody have some technical documentation about these card (I tried
to ask to Ameristar people but no reply for the moment), a documentation
about the low level programmation of the card (libraries, list of low level
calls, how to create a packet or anything so...).

I have some problems (maybe my fault). I cannot make a Path on a NFS
volume during startup-sequence. It works fine by hand but not in the
startup-file. Strange isn't it ?. NFS is not working as fine as expected.

When I try to FTP on a IBM/VM/3090 node, it hangs and the only way to
continue is to CTRL A-A...

If I TELNET on a IBM/VM/3090 TCP/IP node, impossible to get a full page
window (line mode only and without any echo!). This is because I need
a 3270 emulation but without any doc. to how to program the card, I can't
program my own emulator... A solution ???

When will come a upgraded version of the software ? I need a server side
implementation of all these things to use amigas in a network environment
without the need of a Vax or a Sun...

I need also DECNET protocol. I can develop something but no documentation
about anything... Why ?

AMERISTAR, ARE YOU READING THIS ? WHY SO MUCH SECRET ABOUT YOUR CARD ?
IT WORKS WELL BUT THE SOFTWARE IS NOT WELL ENOUGH... WHY DON'T YOU
REPLY TO MY MAIL ?

Milan

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