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From: jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James Van Bokkelen)
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Subject: Re: Public Domain drivers for Ethernet cards
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Date: 30 May 89 16:03:58 GMT
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Assuming you want something copyrighted such that you can use it in a product:

NCSA Telnet/FTP is available in source form, has a driver for the
3C501, but the only way it can use a WD8003 is via the Clarkson Packet
Driver, which has a no-commercial-use copyright.  NCSA puts the
application and the protocol stack in the same .EXE file, and I don't
think the programming interface looks much like sockets (I am not sure
how well the interface is defined, either).

The MIT/CMU/Harvard PC-IP is also available in source form, has a
driver for the 3C501 and gets to the WD8003 via the Packet Driver spec
(see above).  This also puts the protocol stack in the .EXE with the
application, and the interface looks nothing like sockets, making
heavy use of upcalls and a built-in tasking package (but it is fairly
well defined).

If you want a separate protocol stack, and/or a socket library, you
have to go to the commercial packages: Sun's PC/NFS and FTP's PC/TCP
have the drivers you want, and the programming interface, but source
(if you really need it) costs quite a bit.

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