Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!burdvax!gvlv2!kleonard From: kleonard@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ken Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: affirmative tcp-ip on arcnet! Message-ID: <475@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Date: 22 Dec 89 14:05:45 GMT References: <470@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: Unisys Defense Systems, NISD, Great Valley Laboratory Lines: 41 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: * I have modified Phil Karn's TCP/IP to work with an ARCnet packet driver. * Oh, and yes, I also wrote an ARCnet packet driver. * Phil's software will also act as a router, and it knows how to fragment * correctly. * tough, just a matter of bashing Phillip Prindeville's PCIP and Dan Lanciani's * PCIP together. * Probably not. The lowest MTU that anyone uses on the Internet is 576. * The highest MTU you can use on ARCnet is 507. You need a router that * fragments packets. * Can we also get a _packet_driver_ SLIP? * Yes. See below. * Phil has agreed to accept my arcnet support changes, so you'll eventually * be able to use a vanilla copy. Now here's where I _really_ get confused (poor me 8-) ). _Is_ there a _main_ "home" of PCIP? of PACKETDRIVERS? etc? If I bash Mr P's and Mr L's PCIPs together, does that may my poor little PClone the "home" of "Ken's PCIP?" How, then, to maintain coordination among three different versions assuming all three authors continue to have the time and goodness-of-heart to make the beasties available to other folk? I _do_ admire and appreciate folk who make the effort to share good stuff with the rest of us. Some day when I get rich, or maybe very soon if Mike Blumenthal succeeds in destroying the company I work for, I'm gonna go into business with a pay-cheap-for-access-whozis public *NIX system with mega-BBS and **-DOS/*NIX cross-support. And I'll offer a free home to anyone like Karns or Prindeville or Lanciani, and free-to-everyone archive/redistribution to FSF, just to try to help spread usefulness and good works! 8-) ---------------------- regardz, Ken