Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!jack
From: jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Ethernets in Xenix
Keywords: Ethernet Xenix nice?
Message-ID: <3022@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 88 19:51:13 GMT
References: <4@xenlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@turnkey.TCC.COM
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <4@xenlink.UUCP> deraadt@xenlink.UUCP (Theo A. DeRaadt) writes:
>
>I am wondering about using Ethernets with Xenix - and have a couple of
>questions that I would like to pose.
>
>Does someone have an NFS for it?

SCO's package Xenix-Net gives you something like NFS. It also has something
like ftp and rlogin but they are not really using TCP/IP as the transport
protocol. I have heard a rumor that SCO is soon going to offer a seperate
TCP package but have not confirmed this. The other problem with the Xenix-Net
package is that it only supports limited ethernet cards, like Excellan's
or Sytek's broadband card. These cards are excellent but very expensive.

>Can you get rlogin,ftp and all that good stuff for it?
 
Excellan provides you with full TCP/IP software with their ethernet card.
Also FTP software may soon offer a similar package that will work with the
inexpensive Western Digital 8003E ethernet card, I believe it is in beta
test at the moment. I am nearly finished with a device driver for the WD
card which I may or may not put in the public domain, I am also planning
to make suitable modifications to the KA9Q package to use the card under
Xenix (Bob Clements has already done so for DOS).

						Hope this helps,


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Jack F. Vogel
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