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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Packet driver for Netbios?
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Date: 6 Feb 89 15:38:25 GMT
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The commercial Packet Drivers that I know of are all for specific interfaces:

InterLAN		NI5010, NI5210 (built into Netware)
Univation		NC-516 (bare driver, usable w/Netware, Lifenet)
Schneider & Koch	PC-bus and MCA cards (no details, usable w/Netware)
Spider Systems		SpiderMonitor (for add-on TCP/IP sold with it)
Sytek			both Ether and Broadband (no details, usable w/Netware)
TCL			Ethernet board (no details, usable w/Netware)
TRW			PC-2000 (bare driver, tested (but not sold) w/PC/NFS)

In addition, the following should hit the streets soon:

10-Net Communications	200-series, 300-series (bare driver, usable w/10-Net)
FTP Software		Microsoft NDIS/MAC-to-Packet-Driver adapter
Gateway Communications	PC, AT & MCA cards (no details, may not be shipping)
IMC Networks		PC-NIC, PC-NIC II (both bare & built into Netware)

Most of the above are sold bundled with hardware, and sometimes with Netware
and/or TCP/IP.  There will be a few more later this year.

See Russ Nelson's reply for his non-commercial drivers for the WD8003, NI5010,
NI5210 and SLIP over COMn.  They're working on NCSA support at Clarkson, too.

Karl Auerbach added the TRW PC-2000 driver to the Harvard version of PC-IP.

Phil Karn added support for it to KA9Q last Fall.

Kelly Macdonald's people did a version of Netware that calls the P-D.  It has
been given to Novell, for inclusion in the distributed source code, but I don't
know if it is shipping yet.

James B. VanBokkelen		We're moving.  After 2/26, the new number
FTP Software Inc.		will be (617) 246-0900.