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From: wjr@VAX.FTP.COM (Bill Rust)
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Subject: Re:  packet driver for 3C523?
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Date: 6 Apr 89 13:26:22 GMT
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While we don't have a real 3c523 packet driver available yet, we do have an
NDIS to Packet Driver converter available. This allows any NDIS (nee MAC)
driver to look like a packet driver. I have tested it with the 3c523 driver
and it does work. Of course (the gotcha), you need the 523 NDIS driver and a
little piece of software called the 'protocol manager'. The 523 driver itself
should be available from 3Com. The protocol manager itself is a different
story. There was a great debate going over whether or not to put it in the
public domain and I really don't know if anything has been decided yet. But,
the NDIS spec is available and writing your own, at least for this purpose,
shouldn't take much time at all. It is available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.com. We don't provide source for the perverter, but I wrote it in
assembler and didn't comment it very well so what difference does that make
anyway? In any case, it's there and I would appreciate hearing from anybody
who makes use of it.

WJR

William J Rust (wjr@ftp.com)
FTP Software
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Wakefield, MA 01880
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