Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!VAX.FTP.COM!jbvb From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Support for Ethernet boards Message-ID: <8904111421.AA23476@vax.ftp.com> Date: 11 Apr 89 14:21:20 GMT References: <796@pcsbst.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 47 Date: 10 Apr 89 11:01:06 GMT From: wild We are trying to run NFS and some frontends of UNIX programs (e.g. PC-ALIS, PC-Oracle) on a PC connected via Ethernet. I am not sure if this is possible with only one Ethernet board and TCP/IP package. Depends on what the frontend vendor has done in terms of TCP/IP support on DOS. Oracle has a version for Excelan's TCP/IP libraries and board. They may already be shipping one for our PC/TCP libraries, which will run on any interface we support. I don't think they have one for Sun's PC/NFS libraries, but I don't know for sure (ask an Oracle salesperson). I don't know much about PC-ALIS, but I'm pretty sure they haven't talked to FTP Software. To choose a board and TCP/IP software, I need answers to the following questions: 1. What boards does NFS support now and in the future? FTP Software's NFS will support W-D, InterLAN, 3Com, BICC, Novell Ethernet card & its clones, Proteon, IBM & other 802.5 cards, SLIP, and any Ethernet card that has a Packet Driver for it (Schenider & Koch, TCL, many others). PC/NFS is available from Sun for at least SLIP and the 3Com 3C503. Drivers for other boards are available from the board vendors (BICC, InterLAN, W-D and probably others). Geoff? I don't know what drivers are available for the Beame & Whiteside NFS. Carl? Ask Excelan if they have an NFS for their board (I seem to recall an announcement a while back), and if it will work with the Oracle port. 2. What boards and what TCP/IP software needs PC-ALIS? Could I run PC-ALIS on top of NFS? If the supplier of PC-ALIS did a version which called one of the vendor's TCP/IP libraries, yes. Ask one of their salespeople. 3. Same as 2. for PC-Oracle. See above. Rudi Wildgruber, PCS Germany James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901