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From: ljm@TWG.COM (Leo J McLaughlin)
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Subject: Public domain packet driver clearing house
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Date: 16 Feb 89 19:39:00 GMT
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Recently, both Tim Krauskopf at NCSA and Russ Nelson at Clarkson University
posted a list of public domain drivers conforming to the FTP packet driver
specification available at each of their sites.  With the advent of a growing
base of public domain drivers it now makes sense for Wollongong to support
the packet driver specification.

I propose that a clearing house for public domain packet drivers be created.
It would allow for the easy dissemination of new drivers via anonymous ftp
and for each contributing organization to support a greater variety of
interfaces in their own distributions.  In his posting Russ Nelson had
offered to distribute any packet driver sent to Clarkson; I would imagine
that he would be interested in maintaining such a clearing house. If not,
it could be set up at Wollongong.

As Wollongong's contribution to this clearing house, we will put in the
public domain each of our drivers as they are converted to conform to
the packet driver specification.  This list currently includes 3Com's
3c500, 3c503, 3c505 and 3c523, MICOM's NI5010, Western Digital's WD8003, 
Proteon's P1300, the BICC4110, a SLIP interface, and our IP over NetBIOS
and IP over IPX interfaces.


leo j mclaughlin iii
The Wollongong Group
ljm@twg.com